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Spinello Projects presents Everything Is Not Quite The Way It Is, the gallery debut solo exhibition by Thomas Bils, consisting of a suite of large-scale oil paintings created between 2018-23. Painting in a highly representational style and reflecting from the absurdities accustomed to growing up in the suburban south during the beginning of the opioid crisis, Bils composes scenes from a first-person perspective where the viewer acts as a gazer upon a window of reality he has imagined and constructed. Bils practices the act of noticing, wherein he creates paintings that carry tension with …