The Niagara paintings, rooted in observation and in place, assay tone and the prismatic color spectrum. They disrupt the idea that landscape, as such, is static, even material. Indeed, the supposed permanence of landscape here becomes an opalescent memorial to a world continually undone by geologic forces: plate tectonics, volcanism, earthquakes, glaciation, erosion, sedimentation, and in just the last two hundred years, the anthropogenic increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Show runs through October 10th