The National Centers for Environmental Prediction announced that our planet experienced this past week the highest average global temperature in recorded history. First, Monday was the hottest day ever. Then it was the Fourth of July. The records will sadly keep tumbling. For the past year, KAREN STABENOW has been our community’s gadfly in regard to these alarming trends. While SUMMER SOLSTICE does not include her call-to-action melting Arctic landscapes, her three paintings do spotlight critical issues, from rising sea levels to Arctic drilling, The artist tells us, “I paint with oil to communicate the climate change in the North and South Poles.... These changes are caused by the use of coal, oil and methane, resulting in melting ice, sea rising, vanishing glaciers, fractured landscapes, extinction, and in the Antarctic, icebergs turn green from the warming iron-rich sea water and algae.”
KAREN STABENOW
“Arctic Drilling”
12.5 x 25
oil on panel
400.
