I love the dichotomy of Ed Templeton opening The Sprawl in Antwerp at TVLG on Thanksgiving. It might even be more multi-faceted than that. Orange County, and the skate, street and beach culture there, has been the subject of Ed's paintings and photographs for decades, and it doesn't often create a visual of "fall-Thanksgiving" for the rest of the USA. And maybe that is what makes it so fascinating: Ed's depictions of American life have been, in the past, foreign even to most of the USA, but now in the Trump era seem to represent a wider scope of how the country has shifted to a more insular and isolationist place. It is a place obsessed and naive to itself, and the way Ed has painted Orange County over the years feels so similar. —Evan Pricco