Structural Omission, originated by Deborah Scott, is a framework in contemporary realist painting that structures images around load-bearing absences, revealing the limits of perception, narrative,
Strategic Indeterminacy and Its Limits Luc Tuymans and Michaël Borremans are often associated with what critics call strategic indeterminacy. Their paintings hover between legibility and opacity, offering
Structural Omission: The Architecture of the Unknowable Most realist painting still operates on the assumption that everything can be rendered visible. That we can see
https://youtu.be/PmiNVGYdhIg?si=u6gqQR4rUQBCJ7f3I’m excited to share a new short film produced by art historian and critic John Seed, profiling my work and the conceptual framework I’ve been
In 2025, art historian and critic John Seed introduced my framework, Structural Omission, in a narrated presentation hosted on his YouTube channel. The script was
We live in a post-certainty era. Many feel it, whether they name it or not. Grand narratives have collapsed, institutions have lost trust, and consensus
. There’s a familiar argument in art writing: that omission is a technique. A deliberate choice to leave something out, to create ambiguity or provoke
Occasionally, when I share a new painting, I hear: “That feels surreal.” It’s not. Calling it that erases what is actually at stake. What Surrealism
Structural Omission Is Not Non-Finito When people first encounter my paintings, the visible gaps and disruptions can look like incompletion. Art history has a name
The Comfort of Filling Gaps In my recent work, I’ve been grappling with what it means to paint omission. It’s easy to think of omission
