folding of a season
32”x36”
acrylic on yupo
2016
autumn release
28” x 28”
Acrylic on yupo
2018
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early ice
11” x 14”
acrylic on yupo
2018
fixed in the fluid
26.5” x 24.5”
acrylic on yupo
2018
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Red
25"x19"
acrylic on yupo
2018
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Yarrow
19.25"x26"
acrylic on yupo
2017
Matters Breath
37”x30”
acrylic on yupo
2018
yala
37”x48”
acrylic on yupo
2019
Luminary
48”x74”
acrylic on board
2018
on wind
48”x75”
acrylic on yupo
2018
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SHAPE OF A TREK
40”x49”
acrylic on yupo
2017
Alchemy
48”x30”
acrylic on yupo
2018
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HUNTER
60”x24”
acrylic on yupo
2019
Temporal Translation
25”x41”
acrylic on yupo
2018
Yarrow II
12.5”x15.5”
framed acrylic on yupo
2018
Chance Encounters
Ilana Manolson’s landscape paintings slice through time, space and geography to reveal compressed and complicated after-images that only memory and imagination can conjure. Her processes, developed over years of studying botany and exploring the natural world through hiking and kayaking while being an accomplished painter, reflect a generous perspective on how direct experience evolves when taken into the studio. Like so many of her predecessors, Manolson sketches en plein air and returns to her indoor sanctuary to literally reframe her initial sensory observations. And it is what happens at the easel that transforms her landscapes into sites for contemplation, conflict and conjecture about some of the confounding issues in contemporary painting as well as our current climate crisis.