AUGUST is a re-creation of a suburban summer night. Growing up in Arlington, Virginia, I spent nights driving around in cars with friends, drinking slurpees under sodium street lights, breathing in the humid scents of lawn grass and hot asphalt, and listening to the crickets sing. For me, a hot summer night is a magical, limitless experience, full of infinite possibilities.

 

I retraced the steps of my teenage nocturnal wanderings, painting every 7-Eleven in Arlington from inside my car. Featuring these paintings alongside sculptural works, scents, and sounds, AUGUST transports the viewer to another time of year and another time of life. Late summer, like late adolescence, is rich with the sweet, melancholic realization that something is coming to an end.