Carisa Galloway

Carisa Galloway’s sensitively figurative, powerfully evocative landscape paintings transport viewers through the striking vividness of their tones and textures. The Mississippi native creates incredible dimensions and surfaces through her impressionist style of shading and application. Her luminescent oil on canvas and pastel on paper works are generally dominated by two competing hues: strong azure skies and crisp yellow fields, the cool white snow against blue waters.

Galloway’s approach to landscape is neither overly dramatic nor strictly realist. She deploys delicate but discernible brushstrokes that emphasize the volume, depth and weight of natural features, creating palpable contours. The natural settings she portrays vary immensely, from the palpable heat of golden fields to lush gardens, with pockets of unexpected colors tucked into what another artist might depict in strict monochrome. This ability to tap into viewers’ pre-existing experiences of nature through powerful visuals then add texture with subtle details renders Galloway’s works uniquely transporting.