A Whole New World
2025
Acrylic on canvas
21” x 21”
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Our planet holds knowledge in its physicality: the past, the present, and the future of a landscape hum in simultaneous presence. The landscape overwhelms our limited senses like a drug, placing a distorting lens between our awareness and reality. What I find, in the natural world, is a psychedelic density—a wealth of information seen and unseen. These paintings focus on the direct physical and psychic experience of the NH woods. They are both real and abstract landscapes, seeking to convey the inherent overwhelm of natural presence. They explore collision, and excavation—literal excavations of the earth for its perceived value, as well as the way our perceptual fingers reach into the electrical socket of reality, hoping for a brief jolt, a vision, an electric connection to supernatural truth that lies at the periphery of our lives. The paintings are concerned with first person encounters, placing no distance between the viewer and the landscape itself, and offering no escape from the hallucinogenic weight of reality—unpeeling the human desire for rationality from a space that has its own memory, observes its own logic, and moves us by its very complexity into a state of trance.

Ewaskio has participated in solo and group shows at spaces including Elijah Wheat Showroom, Orgy Park, Underdonk, GP Presents, AIR Gallery, and Temporary Agency (New York), Zolla/Lieberman (Chicago), NADA FAIR (online), Boehm Gallery (San Diego), Current Space, Metro Gallery (Baltimore), The Institute Library (New Haven), Texas Christian University (Fort Worth), Moncton University (Canada), and Salamanca Arts Centre (Australia). Her work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, and New American Paintings. She is a recipient of the William and Dorothy Yeck award from Miami University, and was awarded grants from the Kossak Painting Program and the Jerome Foundation. She was a resident at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and The Arctic Circle residency. She has an MFA from Hunter College, and lives and works in NH.

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