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 Billich’s paintings read as smoothly as photos. They are composed mostly of architectural elements with arbitrary touches of human figures and statues. The majority of subject matter is depicted in a flattened, slick manner, with a consistently ultra smooth gradation. Despite these flattened surfaces, the scenes composed in these paintings are arranged in so many layers that the picture as a whole perpetuates a great sense of depth. Microenvironments are found within the larger picture many times over. Sharp, mirrored architectural spaces can be discovered existing inside each other. Whispy, soft blues, pinks, and purples and the hyper-smoothed, polished shading are shared in both the objects and atmospheric space, making for an illusory feel. Some of the paintings seem to parallel the setting of a galley or museum, having spacious walls with images hung about them. Within each image there is a newly constructed space, however, there is often a similar atmosphere or color scheme that connects the images to the walls and to the surrounding space that it exists within. And the walls themselves seep in and out of antonymous colors and shades, deconstructing the solidity and truth of the walls, making for an otherworldly ambiance. A complicated, confused space is the result, something quite surreal and dreamlike, leaving the viewer questioning exactly what is what, and what is a possible reflection, or even an imagining.
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