18 x 24 x 2 IN
Spray paint on cradled aluminum panel
These pieces loosely reference Roy Lichtenstein’s works where reflections on glass partially obscured the image underneath. But instead of depicting a recognizable subject interrupted by reflection, the image itself has been reduced to pattern… the same pattern used in the language of the frame. 
What remains is the structure of presentation: a frame, a mat, a central field for contemplation, and the illusion of light interacting with its surface. The work contains all the signals that tell us we’re looking at something valuable or important, while withholding a traditional subject entirely.
In that sense, the pieces become self-referential. They’re not depicting an image as much as examining the systems that give images authority:
framing, display, lighting, composition, and the language of painting itself.
The absence of a subject is the subject.