An exhibition of new encaustic paintings and digital art by Wo Schiffman and Davey Whitcraft that confronts complex perceptions of place, belonging, and isolation. Created during the past year and a half, this visual conversation between the two artists explores changing perceptions of place during isolation through images of specific places in Iceland. Based on visits to Iceland over the past fifty years, Schiffman’s richly colored abstract landscapes offer idealistic vistas of glaciers, seascapes, valleys, thermal pools, and forests paired with post-apocalyptic visions of the same locations developed throughout the deepening pandemic. Painted continuously throughout the pandemic, idyllic portrayals of a location slide into apocalyptic visions of isolated desolation as the reality of isolation challenged memories and connections to beloved places.
