CLOUD STUDIES

Catherine Erb’s cloud series evokes moments in art history: Renaissance Italy, Baroque Rubens, now, tomorrow. They explore shape and form and energy while relating to a wide variety of artists who have used clouds as subject matter: Titian, Turner, Monet and modern artists such as April Gornik and Will Cotton. Within the medium of photography, Alfred Steiglitz created his revolutionary photographs of clouds, his Equivalentsseries, in the 1930’s. Steiglitz felt that clouds became abstract equivalents of his own thoughts, experiences and emotions. So, too, does Erb make that connection between “searching for glimpses of a thing’s divine essence and being still and present enough to capture those moments.”

Her studies of clouds transcend space and time with luscious translucence.