Chinese restaurant

Extracted and cropped from a larger photograph depicting a scene at a Chinese restaurant, Preller deliberately blurs the scene, evoking the event of an evening our, rather than illustrating the still life details. The painting is executed in her distinctive monochrome pallette, veering to shades of blue-green. The emphasis is on a moment captured in time, and on the idiom of the photogrpah as source material, as much as on the objects depicted.