June Virtual Exhibition

Croqueting Through The Anthropocene

Michael Gellatly

Oil and Ink on Paper

48 x 116 inches

Hudson Valley, New York

 

I paint in an attempt to bear witness to the thrilling emergency of the present. Through a multi-referential lens, my imagery inhabits spaces, while reaching for my own state, a perspective I call the ‘Scenic Overlook’.

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These recent paintings build like one would a scroll, or a script, built upon a nonspecific nonlinear narrative, one where the story looms out of reach while the present presents itself in all directions, becoming cinematic in space and time.

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This most recent piece, Croqueting Through the Anthropocene, moves through an entanglement of natural/sci-fi landforms, to a suggestion of a crime scene, dislocated and foreign, like the present itself.

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