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My paintings typically depict post-industrial landscapes and draw on the aesthetic traditions of minimalism and realism. The work has been referred to as "dark pop" or "strip-mall Morandi." Grounded in reality, the paintings nonetheless abstract the ordinary: the everyday world is made transcendent and strange - and is imbued with an ethereal and melancholy beauty. The sharp juxtaposition of technology and romanticism are evocative of the moment - and environment - in which we find ourselves presently. My work contemplates the paradox of this harmonious and destructive co-existence.

Frank Webster