Sola x Luna

For the month of April, Speck Gallery is featuring Kristi Marsh Watson’s abstract acrylic and oil landscape paintings, which explore the allure of the solar eclipse that occurred on April 8th. 

Watson’s body of work, Sola x Luna, centers around the paradoxical nature of the sun and moon. Sola embodies light, femininity, and mother energy, while Luna is its masculine opposite.

Watson explores the metaphors that the sun and moon evoke as well as the atmosphere that these energy forces have on our natural world: “I think of them as times of day more than I think of literal landscapes,” Says Watson. “I see noon, twilight, nighttime, or right before the sun comes up.” While Watson loves that viewers can assign their own meaning to her work, she gives just enough information for viewers to gather that the works are the effects of light on landscapes and can be immersed in the feelings they evoke.

Each work embodies the effects of light from the sun and moon in a unique way, and Watson seeks to capture the feeling of the eclipse through color, movement, and texture, which she achieves through her unique process of spraying and dripping paint onto her surfaces.

The show can be viewed anytime during the month of April in the Speck Gallery during Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. The works can also be viewed and purchased on our online gallery through May.