Kay WalkingStick’s latest solo show at Hales Gallery in Chelsea, ‘Mesas/Mountains/Sky,’ follows her 2022 exhibition there, ‘Mountains/Canyons/Clouds,’ in presenting landforms and sky as subject matter for paintings that showcase the majestic beauty of the natural world. Each fluidly painted scene is accompanied by abstract designs, patterns copied from Native American beadwork, pottery or other objects which belong to the cultures resident in the scene depicted. Here, ‘Sage Brush and Cholla’ pictures plants important to Navajo communities while including a pattern with stepped forms around a cross symbol referring to the four directions of the universe. (On view in Chelsea through May 30th).
