I am currently working on abstract watercolors and a project which I call Crazy River, which consists of layered ruminations in paint and words on the climate crisis in the Western Catskills.
My abstract watercolors come out of a decades-long involvement with color, taking their cues from Minimalism, the New York School and Cézanne.
Crazy River draws its material from memories, epiphanies, and stories about the West Branch of the Neversink in the western Catskills. “Neversink” is a corruption of the river’s original Lenapé name, which means something like “crazy river.” The paintings are executed on panel and mesh with acrylics. The project asks the question: What happens when environmental catastrophes upend a landscape you know and love?
