These acrylic paintings, all 8 by 10 inches, were shown at the Carnegie Art Center exhibit, Shaved and Adorned, 2001, Buffalo, N. Y. The imagery comes from found photos, magazines, home decoration books, yearbooks, family snapshots, along with a few photos the artist took. Dillemuth claims he paints because he can't paint. The crudeness of style has a peculiar way of both masking and at times illuminating the narrative and voyeuristic threads in his work. Coloring book method mixes with expressionism to give the paintings a playful deadpan feel. The controlled expressionism embellishes the scene, while masking the source of the imagery. This detachment of scene and source creates an empty space allowing the voyeur to return and narrative structure to develop. There is more than just a trace of Hitchcock here.