About

A collaborative temporary mural painting created in 2014 with artist Damien Gilley in the Littman and White Gallery on the Portland State University Campus in Portland, Oregon. 

The title “Terminal Sunset” was borrowed from Phillip K Dick story, which describes a place of everlasting vacation, a place of paradise in perpetuity which euphoria turns into a state of madness. 

The artists play on this duality of creating an imaginary mapping of the gallery itself. Responding to the boundary as a perceptual activity, the gallery walls both exist and disappear, comfortable in its state as both a painting and a structure. Both artists’ preoccupation with illusions and allusions to depth as both flat and expansive are paramount in the show. The works vacillate between trompe l'oeil and graphic space, presenting the viewer an interface that references pictorial tradition and computer-aided drafting. The gallery manifests as a self-referential entity, presenting an exhibition while being in one. The site, in a state of deconstruction, reinforces its physicality through elements that also serve to erase and recreate a sense of an external landscape. It is a divide that establishes indeterminate structures as a foundation of space that ultimately replaces the existing outside world.