Watching You Watch Me, 2022 oil on canvas 72 x 60 in. 182.88 x 152.4 cm “So does everybody else” On view @seasons.la until Dec 17th Wheless moves with an Impressionist sensibility and paints her subjects in keeping with the sentiments of Claire Tabouret and Elizabeth Peyton. While those two have traditionally emphasized the facial features of their subjects, Wheless largely denies her viewers an encounter with physiognomy. Large surfaces open up to the fluidity of the paintbrush, extending the brush’s motion into wider planes as the canvas expands its receptacle for Wheless’s energy. The sheer physicality of this scale also encourages her to dance with the canvas, the body activated by movement across the compositions. Her awareness of the limits of oneself become an obstacle and an asset at once. Text by @spiralstaircase1