108 x 132.1 cm
Pierre-Francois Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present "These Waters Are Alive", a solo exhibition of new works by Ripley Whiteside.
The group of watercolor and walnut ink paintings and prints that make up These Waters Are Alive engages with landscape in transformation, ecology in motion, and the premise that we may not know as much as we think we do about how our present and future are being shaped by a swiftly changing climate. At the present moment, I think it is important to consider the genre of landscape painting as climate crisis painting. I am particularly interested in unintended consequences of anthropogenic impact, and ensuing changes within ecosystems that are difficult to perceive or understand. Water is of course central to how land is shaped and life is sustained, and also functions materially in this project: paper is stained by evaporated pools and rivulets of color washes. These techniques, which have been guided by experimentation, yield abstract forms expressing complexities inherent to landscapes in flux.
