For The Dallas Art Fair 2019, Anat Ebgi presents a solo booth with the work of Los Angeles-based painter Alec Egan.
Leading viewers through a maze of floral wallpaper, painting-within-painting, and humorous compositions, Egan’s thick impastoed brushwork tackles the psychology of the domestic interior. His lush pastel palette garners strength and intensity despite the mundane status of his subjects—a house plant, hamburger, taxidermy bear, sunglasses, an ashtray. Swatches on swatches, Egan’s canvases produce an infinite number of windows, chambers and corridors, blending the internal with the external, the landscape with the still life, relishing in their own lurid pattern-making and the comfort of déjà vu.
