Environmental Chaos 2023

Chaos, energy, unpredictable, unstable…challenging. Environmental chaos is all of that and more.

In this show, Capitol Hill Art League artists have created art that speaks to the consequences of environmental chaos on the individual as well as the community, society, and planet.
Juror Colleen Garibaldi presetd awards and discussed the art at the opening reception.

Garibaldi is a Washington DC artist engaged in an ongoing, ever-evolving investigation into the experience and nature of being human, using personal experience to comment on social order or disorder, often working obliquely.

"Storms Brewing in the Pacific" by Carolyn Rondthaler - Multimedia: Put Details in Notes, mixed media; 14x11x0 in., $150
"Life before Oxygen" by Elin Whitney-Smith - Digital Art: All Digital Art, Cyanobacteria's waste product was oxygen. Extinction from their waste. As might we.; 11x16x0 in., $40
"Ghost Town" by Dave Mann - Print Making: Intaglio (printmaking), intaglio etching on handmade-paper; 14x16x1 in., $250
"Take Cover" by Tara Hamilton - Painting Media: Watercolor; 14x11x2 in., $200
"Skeletons" by Jane Mann - Print Making: Etching; 11x14x0.6 in., $200
"Mutation of Clematis cv 'Josephine'" by Allen Hirsh - Digital Art: All Digital Art, From a photo of the double flowered clematis cultivar 'Josephine' in my garden.; 18x24x0 in., $750
"Noah" by Dave Mann - Print Making: Intaglio (printmaking); 12x14x1 in., $200
"World on Fire" by Nan Raphael - Photography: Digital image capture, digitally altered photo; 8x10x0 in., $50
"La Mancha" by Dave Mann - Photography: Other, Digital Photomontage; 14x18x1 in., $200
"Awaken" by Camille Kouyoumdjian - Painting Media: Acrylic paint, Awaken depicts an Icelandic waterfall, raging in summer. The fierce chaos of the water and the stark colors of the landscape are nothing short of awe-inspiring. We are humbled in its presence. 9x12x0.1 in., $265
"Windsong" by Camille Kouyoumdjian - Painting Media: Acrylic paint, attempting to bring order to nature results in imbalance - we name our environment, landscape it, rearrange it, only to find that when left to its own devices, nature returns to wild. Hand painted acrylic paper collage and real preserved leaves on canvas; 9x12x0.5 in., $215
"Explosion of the Milkweed" by Rindy OBrien - Photographic Media: Inkjet, The milkweed explodes sending its snowy white seeds into the universe. This is a still life in motion. Explosions can be pale and powerful.; 10x8x0 in., $300
"Abandoned Farm" by Jane Mann - Photographic Media: Inkjet, Limited edition archival print; 14x18x1 in., $225
"AIR I" by Sufie Berger - Painting Media: Gouache, Gouache and Collage; 21x24x0 in., $300
"Contaminated Refinery Spill" by Carolyn Rondthaler - Painting Media: Watercolor, truck driving through water contaminated by a spill from oil refinery; 11x14x0 in., $150
"Cielo in a Sea of Plastic”; Peru 2012 by Jim Huttinger - Photography: Photographic film, Masked iron-blue toned fiber gelatin silver print. Photographed - 2012; Hand Printed - January 2023; 16x20x2 in., NFS
"Edge of Chaos" by Victoria Lakes - Painting Media: Acrylic paint, Edge of Chaos is my artistic interpretation of the environmental crises we are experiencing today. We often ask ourselves... Is it too late to save the planet? 20x20x0.5 in., $500
"Canyon Light" by Camille Kouyoumdjian - Painting Media: Acrylic paint, Catching the landscape early in the morning, before any other human arrives, reminds us of the vast wilderness and our insignificance. It is easy to get lost in the chaos of the wild world, but also one of the only places where you find your truth. hand-painted acrylic paper collage on panel, framed; 14x18x0.1 in., $465
"Everything is Connected" by Karen Van Allen - Painting Media: Acrylic paint, These 4 paintings represent the 4 directions: white, black, red and yellow. Each painting suggests environmental issues, fire, time, de-forestation and melting glaciers. While there’s 4 paintings, they should be hung as one; 38x38x1 in., $400
"Dry bed" by Karen Zens - Print Making: Other, Collagraph with hand coloring 1/1; 18x12x0 in., $125
"Untitled" by Karen Zens - Print Making: Other, Collagraph 1/1; 18x12x0 in., $125
"Engulfing" by Nafia Syeed - Painting Media: Acrylic paint, Through my art piece ‘Engulfing’ I wanted to emphasize on the deadly drought to show how warmer temperature enhances evaporation, dries out soils and engulfing our beautiful Earth. I have created this art for us to visualize what is coming ahead if we don’t take actions today to stop global warming. This is a pieces of warning. 13x11x0.8 in., $260
"Caught Up in the Weeds" by Anne Albright - Painting Media: Watercolor, Watercolor & Ink; 22x18x0 in., $400
"Volcanic I" by Karen Zens - Print Making: Other, Hand colored collagraph print 1/1; 18x12x0 in., $125
"Interiority" by Jan Zastrow - Painting Media: Other, Mixed Media Collage; 14x18x0 in., $175