Whether, 2021
Acrylic on paper, 8 x 10" each
Acrylic on paper, 8 x 10" each
Here in the Northeast, our climate is growing noticeably warmer, stormier, and most recently, smokier. The paintings in Whether evoke landscapes and built environments that are visually abstracted by the blurring, graying effects of these conditions. In a strange reversal, painterly abstraction best represents the actual look of the landscape under climate change, in which heat, storms, and smoke confound figure-ground relationships and makes forms hazy. Though landscapes, the works in Whether are presented in portrait orientation. This reflects the fact that our weather is increasingly a portrait of our impact on the environment. As journalist Alan Burdick wrote, ”We are changing the face of the sky, and we are altering its mood...When we look up, increasingly the face we see is ours.”
Selected works
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