Spring Series Launching in April

online April 24 and in-person April 26 & 27

After much exploration and experimentation during the first few months of the year, I am excited to announce that my Spring 2025 series is launching on Thursday, April 24.

In December, Mari and I were fortunate enough to spend a week in South America hiking near the end of the earth, drinking glacier waters, and walking where once oceans were. The beauty of the Chilean geography has stayed with me in the studio back in Brooklyn as I unpack our time there and what it means to be inspired by landscapes as a foreigner. My upcoming series will feature a range of work –– from small three-dimensional folded canvases to my largest-to-date wall paintings –– all inspired by the colors, textures, and feeling of Patagonia, specifically and the human-nature relationship characterized by climate change, tourism, colonization, and industry more broadly.

Photograph by Mari Sheibley during our hike to the French Glacier, Torres del Paine, Patagonia. How could I not be inspired by this place?

We live in a time of overwhelming speed — digital immediacy, rapid production, and a barrage of news updates. Nature, in contrast, moves at its own pace. Glaciers form over centuries, forests regenerate over decades, and landscapes shift in ways that are imperceptible to us yet are made apparent over time. I feel the contrast in timescales between people and nature as I work on this series in New York surrounded by skyscrapers, new shops popping up on my street, and social media updates while thinking about the slow descent to the Torres del Paine granite peaks of Patagonia and the glaciers that formed them over millennia.

In this upcoming series, I’m thinking about:

• What is the state of my relationship with nature?

• What can nature teach me about reaching outside my singular perspective?

• How can I acknowledge and respect the geographical and social histories of the places I live and move through?

Every print is a result of contact and release, which links it immediately to themes of touch, presence, and intimacy but also loss, separation, and memory.

–– Jennifer L. Roberts, art historian, Harvard

Expect to see more monoprinting in this series, a continuation of the practice I first introduced in my Fall 2024 series, in which I use plastic bags to print on canvas. As Jennifer L. Roberts says in her six-part National Gallery of Art lecture series, printmaking is an intimate act of creation in which two foreign bodies rub up against each other with part of one of those bodies physically rubbing off onto the other.

Behind the scenes shot of the monoprinting process, where I incorporate printmaking into my paintings using plastic bags

I see this, the contact and release, the rubbing up and rubbing off, as a beautiful metaphor for our relationships, including our relationship with the natural environment. We shape the environment through our fear and an urge to contain, control, ignore, damage, admire, revere, abuse, and preserve it, and it shapes us via the fragments of it we take with us in the forms of materials, photographs, sustenance, memories, ideologies, and beliefs.

Upcoming Events

April 24: Spring Series Online Launch
Subscribers (you!) have first access to the Spring Series. More emails to come. Respond to this email with painting sizes you have space for.

April 26 & 27: Dumbo Open Studios
See the Spring Series (and me! and my new studio mate!) in person on Saturday and Sunday from 1 - 6 pm. Dumbo Open Studios is a fun event in which all the artists in the neighborhood open their studio doors to the public. This will be my second year participating. Pieces will be available for sale and ready to take home. Hope to see you there! Respond to this email if you’re planning on stopping by.

As always, thanks for being here,

xo G