Eric Diehl, Holiday Inn Xpress, 2025
Oil on Canvas
28 × 48 inches
A lone pickup idles at the edge of a vacant lot, caught between the green wash of a streetlamp and the synthetic glow of a distant strip. The sun has just set, but everything feels overlit — hyperreal and emptied out. Set against the hazy backdrop of the American Southwest, the painting channels both surveillance and stillness, with Diehl’s signature tension between cinematic beauty and quiet dread.