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Scott Foldesi's Tabloids (2008), watercolor, sumi color and pencil on paper, 45 by 60 inches

Check out that grid of fluorescent lights on the ceiling, organizing everything in the frame, like the grid of a Renaissance painter.

Now check out this diagonal grid of light, equally organizing. It causes an initial bewilderment about whether the bench and trees are inside or out—it keeps you looking despite the total banality of the ostensible subjects (bench, trees).

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Scott Foldesi's Bench (2008), oil on canvas, 48 by 40 inches

Yeah. And that's only seeing them on the internet. Imagine them in person. Meaning: ARTWALK IS TONIGHT.

These are at James Harris Gallery. (Gallery site here.)