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paintings from a decades old solo exhibition

I recently had to go through my hard drive looking for a fucking PDF that I didn’t end up finding. But I did find a bunch of images of paintings I thought I’d lost. These paintings were exhibited in a 2005 solo exhibition titled On Feeling Better, at Wallspace Gallery, 619 West 27th Street, New York, NY.

I’m not going write the titles down, because some of them feel corny to me now. If they don’t feel corny, then I’ll cop to them. This painting is 18 x 24 inches. It’s from a photograph I took in a cabin in the mountains in British Columbia, where I lived at the time. It has a title, but I sure don’t like that title today.

I really like this painting. I made a second version that I showed in Switzerland a year or two later. This version didn’t sell. It hung in my kitchen for a while, then I traded it for a leather ottoman.

This painting was small. Maybe 11 x 14 inches. One night I stuck my camera out the window of that same cabin in the mountains, and pressed the shutter. It was pitch black out. When I got the film developed I saw this moth dead center in the middle of the photo. There it is, I paint from my photographs. No, I can’t just create realistic depictions of the world from my imagination like some psycho.