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Cumanday- Beautiful Mountain / Carolyn Castaño's solo show at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles



Cumanday- Beautiful Mountain

Solo exhibition by Carolyn Castaño

Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles

October 1, 2023 - January 7, 2024


Video by L.A. Art Documents / www.laartdocuments.com


 

Cumanday- Beautiful Mountain is an ode to the tradition of landscape representation and the disappearing glaciers in Colombia. This new body of work from the 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 and its ongoing destructive effects on the environment due to resource exploitation and postindustrial manufacturing.


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