Your meteo-sensitivity will be on alert when you come to Storefront Bushwick this weekend.  Deborah Brown, curator and the owner of the gallery chose an interesting duo of classically trained painters: Karen Marston (in the main space) and Kerry Law (in the project room). Common to the work of both artists is the dense atmosphere created by the weather, whether it’s an apocalyptic gloominess of Karen’s tornados or foggy peacefulness of Kerry’s Empire State Building. 

At Storefront you can see natural disasters and peaceful landscapes painted by Karen Marston, shown side by side. The striking moment provided by these diametrically different kinds of subject matter comes when you realize that they are actually not so different… Maybe antipoles of one. Karen’s work can lead to almost meditative realization that whether it’s a beautiful sunny day in a countryside or a destructive tornado, they are just two modes of one great nature, the all-creating force. In her paintings, Karen doesn’t evaluate; she won’t have you scared or pleased. Karen simply states: “There is a fire in the forest;” her statement is vivid but it lacks any assessing connotation.