2001
Oil on canvas, painted sides
9 × 9 in
A small view of Brighton Beach compresses architecture, sea, and atmosphere into an intimate square. The painting belongs to a period in which travel, attachment, and memory became closely intertwined, allowing particular places to accumulate meanings well beyond their visible geography.
Its title gives the ramshackle pier collapsing seaside a slightly fanciful quality: Sea Palace suggests pleasure, transience, and the temporary architectures people build around experience and memory.
2001
Oil on canvas, painted sides
9 × 9 in
A small view of Brighton Beach compresses architecture, sea, and atmosphere into an intimate square. The painting belongs to a period in which travel, attachment, and memory became closely intertwined, allowing particular places to accumulate meanings well beyond their visible geography.
Its title gives the ramshackle pier collapsing seaside a slightly fanciful quality: Sea Palace suggests pleasure, transience, and the temporary architectures people build around experience and memory.