OUTDOORS
Currently on view in WISHING WELL at Mother-In-Law’s Gallery in Germantown New York, curated by Jacob Rhodes of Field Projects through September 7th.
The OUT DOORS are a series of free-standing landscape paintings on reclaimed wood and glass doors. The works engage the legacy of the Hudson River School, taking on the immersive scale of nineteenth-century Romantic painting while critiquing the genre’s portrayal of nature as an untouched Eden, ripe for expansion and resource extraction. The transparent panels disrupt the illusionistic picture plane, collapsing distinctions between art and environment. The imagery is drawn from archival documentation of 19th-century towns flooded to create New York City's watershed, including the reservoirs, dams, and tunnels that comprise that system. OUT DOORS connects the histories of these flooded communities to contemporary shorelines increasingly threatened by rising waters and intensifying storms.