Egan's most recent series of paintings stems from the prodromal, a clinical term describing the onset of psychosis before it fully emerges. Through layered clashing patterns and textures, Egan constructs images that blur real and imagined, found and fabricated. The paintings channel tension and hypervigilance into the iconic Los Angeles sunset—saturated pink, orange, blue—as allusion to the city's seductive beauty and proximity to existential threat. As Egan's first solo exhibition since the 2025 Palisades fire claimed his home and studio, Groundskeeper locates that loss within a broader inquiry into the fragility of the constructed self.
