Judith Belzer @ Hosfelt

Whichever way this mix of terror and humor strikes you, what's abundantly clear is that Belzer isn't making landscape paintings for display over the mantel; she paints rocks to create a visual analog for the disaster that is climate change.  Though evidence of it mounts daily, the slow speed at which it unfolds allows deniability and inaction, thereby ensuring its unimpeded progress.  Belzer's paintings encapsulate that reality.  They make us conscious of the human mind's ability to hold and entertain contradictory thoughts while suspending reason and action.