"There is no recipe, there is no formula, there is no direction. I never know if and when a painting is going to feel real, or if it is going to feel like it is alive...The materials themselves have to guide the painting. The materials have to present an image or an idea that did not come from me."
"The last four or five years I have become more entranced with dealing with the landscape as a kind of platform for experimentation and abstraction...What I'm trying to do when I am [in nature] is kind of absorb a feeling...And I am always trying to push the paintings to a place where I lose the connection to my own source material or my own experience."
Sky Glabush produces large-scale paintings and intimate works-on-paper that translate exterior landscapes into explorations of interior experience. The work emphasizes materiality—light, color, composition, and texture—as active agents that shape imagery. Large canvases provide immersive, near one-to-one encounters while works-on-paper reveal concentrated, reflective processes. Imagery includes dense copses of trees, mountain valleys, and stars over pines, where layered information balances with immediate presence. Glabush frames the landscape as a platform for experimentation and abstraction, absorbing sensations in nature and deliberately seeking moments when paintings lose and then regain connection to source material, creating animate experiences for viewers.
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