Illusion, the vehicle of photography and painting, is a powerful lens to reality. The deliberated image reveals truths about the artist, the viewer, and the world that surrounds them. These paintings, which do not represent photo-realism, nonetheless have a liminal relationship with photography: they reveal moments of candor in the landscape;  they seek the sense of frontal exposure and reality that we might experience while looki (showing 500 of 7551 characters).