Large-Format Landscape Painting in a Museum Gallery

5 October 2017 · Paris

A large-format canvas dominates the gallery wall — a rural landscape under a flat, overcast sky, agricultural fields rolling toward a treeline, a single dirt road pulling the eye to the horizon. Two-thirds of the painting is grey cloud; the land below it is earthy brown and deep green, muted to near-silence. The scale of the work does what the subject describes: the sky presses down, the road goes somewhere the canvas doesn't follow.