Solo Exhibition: Open Windows
Open Windows is a meditation on the overlooked beauty and nuances in the world around us. Familiar settings across Boston, Cape Cod, Newport (RI), and Los Angeles are depicted in unconventional ways to bring a new perspective and appreciation to such scenes. Disjointed canvases and off-putting angles coalescence with beautiful scenery to play off of the balance between disruption and harmony. The partitioned canvases not only mimic the sense of eye movements that chaotic media or screens resign us to nowadays, but when these works find themselves on a plain wall they almost read as windows.
Though the design of the window is often interpreted as a literal means for light to enter an internal space, it has a greater purpose of touching on a very human desire for connecting with the outside world. Perhaps it’s when we are in these enclosed spaces that we tend to more mindfully acknowledge our connection to the outer world — much like with the opportunity provided to us through portals such as windows. Open Windows invited the view to reinvent one’s outlook on their environment and tap in to a deeper appreciation for our shared humanity — a mindful admiration for our manmade and natural world.
