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John Register (1939-1996) was an American painter who suddenly left his previous career in advertising and became a full time artist. His sunlit interiors miss any living human presence, but are populated with chairs and desks resting in stillness. Register’s empty motel rooms and lobbies, bars and diners depict a melancholic California, desolate under its stark sun and shadows.
Compared with Edward Hopper, Register commented:
“With Hopper you witness someone else’s isolation; in my pictures, I think you, the viewer, become the isolated one.”
(Quote via http://www.oocities.org/soho/cafe/5618/atartists1.html)
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Article by Robin Updike on the Seattle Times (1999)
