Carolyn Castaño, Cumanday- Beautiful Mountain
On view through January 7, 2024
Craft Contemporary
Los Angeles, California
craftcontemporary.org
“Carolyn Castaño, Cumanday- Beautiful Mountain” is an ode to the tradition of landscape representation and the disappearing glaciers in Colombia. The Colombian-American artist’s new body of work blends mixed media watercolor and hard-edge painting techniques with a 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 and its ongoing destructive environmental effects due to resource exploitation and postindustrial manufacturing.
[Image: Carolyn Castaño, Cumanday– Beautiful Mountain, 2023. Watercolor, gouache, appliques, fabric, sequins, on watercolor paper on canvas,144 x 78 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Photo credit: Amy L. Tierney, Thrive Images]
