![Brett Amory - The Outsiders Gallery (Waiting #196) [2014]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5658/23040912301_c6173e0518_o.png)
Brett Amory was born in 1975 in Chesapeake, Virginia. He has lived in the Bay Area of California for the past 15 years, living in San Francisco for 15 years before relocating to Oakland in 2009, where he is currently based. Amory began the Waiting series in 2001 with paintings depicting commuter subjects seemingly detached from their fellow passengers and surrounding environments, inspired by the introverted culture of public transit and inhabitants of the Tenderloin neighbourhood of San Francisco. As the title suggests, the Waiting series is about how we rarely experience living in the now, always awaiting what will come next or obsessed with what has already transpired.
See: brettamory.com/
[Lazarides, London & Newcastle - Oil on wood, 91.5 × 91.5 cm]