East Hampton-based artist Katherine McMahon is displaying her diner-inspired painting series inside of the Silver Lining Diner, which drivers can view from their cars. The artwork is visible through the restaurant’s windows, to adhere to social-distancing orders in place.

Fifty percent of the sales will be given back to the eatery.

The series, titled “The Roast Beef is the Story,” offers an uncanny look inside what used to be a place filled with life, using allusions to classic film diner scenes from “American Graffiti,” “Grease,” “Pulp Fiction” and “Coffee & Cigarettes.”

“Perhaps the diner as a state of mind is a place where seemingly insignificant interactions and reflections occur,” McMahon writes in her statement about the collection. “It’s a place to wait and be waited on. It’s a place where you’re not doing anything, where time stands still.

“… Diners are a place where this truth can unfold.”

McMahon has years of experience in the hospitality industry, having previously worked at The Grill, The Pool, The River Café and The Oak Room at The Plaza.