
West Coast Dinner on East Coast Time #3
2023
West Coast Dinner on East Coast Time #3 presents a luminous, compressed moment suspended between two temporal registers, rendered in acrylic on a hand-fabricated resin and fiberglass panel that Epstein constructs himself. The support is integral to the work's meaning, its smooth, almost glowing surface lending the image a quality somewhere between memory and projection, as though the scene has been preserved beneath glass or glimpsed through still water. Measuring 35.6 by 58.4 centimeters, the painting operates with an intimate scale that draws the viewer close, rewarding sustained attention with layered color decisions and a tonal warmth that evokes late-afternoon Pacific light experienced from the disorienting vantage of an earlier time zone. Epstein has built a devoted following for his ability to load domestic and social rituals with quiet psychological weight, and this work is a strong example of that sensibility. The title's wry logic, eating by the clock of one coast while the light insists on another, speaks to a broader preoccupation in his practice with how time, place, and bodily experience fall out of alignment in contemporary life. The hand-made panel reinforces this theme materially, since the artist's fabrication process introduces a subtle resistance and tactility that industrially prepared surfaces cannot replicate, making the object itself a record of labor and intention. Signed by the artist and offered through Gaa Gallery, this work is a cohesive and collectible example from Epstein's ongoing series. The unframed presentation allows collectors flexibility while also foregrounding the panel's physical character as a finished, self-contained object. For those drawn to painting that thinks carefully about its own support and situates everyday experience within larger conceptual frameworks, this piece represents a compelling acquisition.
- Medium
- Acrylic on artist-made resin and fiberglass panel
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Gaa Gallery
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