“The aesthetic of these paintings is the product of someone who does not find pleasant respite in the conceptual discourses around anything, who finds the social ornament today rather reprehensible, or at the least insufficient, and in need of remediation through different, unmade experience that exceeds it. This withdrawal is intensified and exacerbated by the hostility towards introspection that is common among the status quo, which has taken up a secure residence in certain factions of contemporary art. Painting today is actively mute—it is in what it does not say that it wrenches open experience—its withdrawn introspection is both alien and compelling because what it points to is only implied, not part of, the social ornament.”
