new paintings

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issue: don't know how many paintings will actually fit in the show due to wall space constraints... but i'm hoping it will be more than 2.

artist statement for catalog as follows:
The paintings are representations of facades, values, and structures of art. These facades are in conversation with common notions of commodity and optical pleasure. The gold is a faux gold substitute, a metal powder applied on canvas to create a glossy interior space of what would be walls of stacked gold bars. The faux gold is layered on to create a deep space, which may be entered. The source is a real space, the United States Bullion Depository, Fort Knox, one which few will ever see. The Depositoy is a major structure for the monetary values in the financial system, as well as for the world's economy. Though the values are just numbers, the bars are the physical basis for the structure.

The works reflect a system of value structures, and the facade on which they rest is optical beauty. The only value of these things is in the pleasure we take from the reflective material, and all that we invest in it.