About This Collection:
From 2019 to 2021, I traveled to all 50 states, painting the human-built landscape and asking, what does my world really look like? What can I see today that I couldn’t see yesterday and won’t see tomorrow? The Grand Canyon will look the same in 50 years; what about the McDonald’s drive-throughs and Walmart parking lots? The completed body of work is a time capsule of over 200 paintings, all small enough to fit in the 8x8” wooden boxes in which I stored them. The paintings I made on the road capture America’s sprawling national aesthetic of big box stores, parking lots, and gas stations. Although I drove over 46,000 miles to paint every state, the paintings all look like Anytown, USA. Our nation is vast, complex, and divided — and yet a visual unity persists.
About This Collection:
From 2019 to 2021, I traveled to all 50 states, painting the human-built landscape and asking, what does my world really look like? What can I see today that I couldn’t see yesterday and won’t see tomorrow? The Grand Canyon will look the same in 50 years; what about the McDonald’s drive-throughs and Walmart parking lots? The completed body of work is a time capsule of over 200 paintings, all small enough to fit in the 8x8” wooden boxes in which I stored them. The paintings I made on the road capture America’s sprawling national aesthetic of big box stores, parking lots, and gas stations. Although I drove over 46,000 miles to paint every state, the paintings all look like Anytown, USA. Our nation is vast, complex, and divided — and yet a visual unity persists.