When: June, 2024
Where: Outlier’s Gallery,
157A First Street, #246, Jersey City, NJ
Through June, I’m presentng my solo exhibition, Vanishing Environments, at Outliers Gallery in Jersey City, NJ. This body of work focused on the devastating impact of climate change on wildlife, specifically highlighting endangered animals whose habitats are rapidly disappearing.
Painted in an expressive, urgent style, the works were created using house paint on builder’s paper — a deliberate choice of materials meant to echo the fragility and impermanence of the natural world. Builder’s paper, often used to protect surfaces during construction or demolition, served here as both canvas and metaphor: a reminder that the world these animals depend on is quite literally being paved over.
Each painting captured a species on the brink — not as specimens, but as living presences marked by energy, emotion, and a sense of looming disappearance. From melting ice caps to vanishing forests and rising oceans, Vanishing Environments explored not only the ecological crisis but our complicity and responsibility in confronting it.