McMahon's studious exploration of the picture plane has lead him from the front, the back, sides and now he has "cornered" it. Painters tired of the "window on reality" have strived to go beyond the two dimensionality of the picture plane, at first with paint only and later with the actual physical canvas. McMahon has now expanded that reality further with his ever-changing mirrored "Corner Paintings". Adding a extra plane and introducing mirrors McMahon's breakthrough paintings expand painting's repoitoire and transforms the static to kinetic. McMahon's paintings are alive to compete In today's digital, visual world of constant changing imagry. These light infused paintings transform with the day, beating back the notion both literally and figuratively that "painting is dead"