When the Sky Turned Orange Painting

My work is an exploration of the contrast between organic textures—created intuitively—with carefully crafted flat, hard-edged shapes. This piece began in response to the eerie orange sky that enveloped New York in early June 2023, as a result of raging fires in Canada. As much of my work, it both responds to the Climate Emergency in an abstract way, and on a formal level continues my play with the contrasts of texture against flat shapes and colors. The use of horizontal lines and rectangles and squares is a new direction I'm excited to explore further.