#landscape-painting

#landscape-painting

He has spent the last decade or so thinking about the land as a witness to history and politics. Boundaries shift, places are named and renamed, and maps are redrawn. Land is bought, sold, worked, exhausted, and fought over. It remembers everything and the events that unfold at a particular site become part of its permanent record, even if that record is unseen and mute.

Sun-drenched mountains set against bright blue skies loom hazily in Ken Taylor Reynaga 's paintings. The artist's thickly painted canvases present landscapes and scenes that may look like an idyllic paradise at first glance, but which quickly register as something more complex and urgent. Like a mirage heralding a distant, blurry oasis, Reynaga conjures a tipsy feeling with paintings that are inviting, but also foreboding, as perspectives quickly shift and elements in the works are thrust in our direction.