Among dozens of his canvases at Kunsthalle Krems, the New York painter muses on finding one’s footing as a young artist when the world seems full of cons.

In Graz, an exhibition of ambiguous narratives in bright acrylic color fields playfully suspends the paradigm of painterly embodiment.

What were the little highlights to make this life worth living – and what was bad enough to stand out in even the darkest times?