Carolyn Castaño: Cumanday- Beautiful Mountain
Craft Contemporary
Oct. 1, 2024 - Jan. 7, 2024
Cumanday- Beautiful Mountain is an ode to the tradition of landscape representation and the disappearing glaciers in Colombia. This new body of work from Colombian American artist Carolyn Castaño blends her mixed media watercolor and hard-edge painting techniques with her study of colonialist 19th-century painted travelogues and map-making. The resulting artworks show layered landscape compositions of the impact of climate change on the Andean tropical glacier chains. By including printed fabrics and appliqués with tropical motifs, the artist links colonialism with its ongoing destructive effects on the environment due to resource exploitation and postindustrial manufacturing.