Laura Corallo-Titus

Lives and works in Napa, California, USA

Artist statement

These paintings address changing perceptions toward landscape, the environment and our place in the world. Initially I was struck by the sense of permanence, vastness and grandeur of traditional landscape painting. In contrast our contemporary vision is usually momentary; (a view from a car, plane, train, film), fragmentary and distracted. Traditional depictions of the land and sea display a sense of power, stability, strength... a place to conquer or be conquered. Our dialogue around the environment now is of fragility and impermanence, destruction and loss. Our views of the passing world are frequently distorted from the glare of a window, a flash of artificial light, the editing of a photograph, political divisiveness. It is in this procession that nature becomes metaphor for mind. The painting begins to reflect less on a physical place than as nature as a conduit to an increasingly disordered and disorienting world view. Place and perspective continue to disassociate from a given image. Natural colors lie uncomfortably next to neon. My intent is to mirror the discord in these realities.

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