#Repost @brentfosterjones ・・・ This is the last day to view artist Diane Burko’s evocative abstractions suggesting forms and phenomena in the natural world on view @cindylisicagallery in #Houston, Texas. A survey of new and recent work is scheduled for 2021 at American University. . An endlessly inventive painter active for nearly half a century, an uninhibited colorist, and a friend, a work like the extraordinary ‘Great Barrier Reef’ (2018), evidences her master brushwork and formal interests in color and scale with its large expanses of intense hues filling the canvas. . A 2016 recipient of an @awaw.award, @dianeburko #dianeburko, is a brilliant and highly engaged artist whose radical practice is driven by a deep concern with climate change, joining scientific expeditions in remote corners of the world to see firsthand the transformation of landscapes. . Burko began taking flights over the canyon country of the Southwest with Light and Space artist and avid pilot #jamesturrell in the 1970s; she subsequently made what art critic Carter Ratcliff called “silvery, bluish images of stone and sky…notched and folded forms of the canyon walls inflect the path of vision,” as in ‘First Flight with Jim Turrell’ (1977) the same year Turrell began his monumental project at @rodencrater #rodencrater, an extinct volcano in northern Arizona. . Great Barrier Reef, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 84 inches; First Flight with Jim Turrell, 1977, acrylic on canvas, 48 inches by 80 inches. Photography courtesy of the artist. . #worldoceansday #dianeburko #exhibition #cindylisicagallery #4411montrose (at Cindy Lisica Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BydMI0KAYFv/?igshid=84cnzgsk4fjj