Exxon is a night painting of a gas station in the Washington, DC suburbs. Frank Webster’s paintings typically depict post-industrial landscapes drawing on the aesthetic traditions of minimalism and realism. Grounded in the real, the paintings nonetheless abstract the ordinary: the everyday world is made transcendent and strange — and is imbued with an ethereal and melancholy beauty. The sharp juxtaposition of technology and romanticism are evocative of the moment — and environment — in which we find ourselves presently. His work contemplates the paradox of this co-existence.
