Marvin Perry Mann fuses the raw emotional energy of mid-Century abstract expressionism to a vision of a numinous natural world. Hues founded in the sonority of American Tonalist painting open into a boisterous symphony of color. Scrapping and scratching through layers of wax and paint he finds the reeds and weeds and twisting branches that exposes nature as a force that is both voluptuous and volatile.

A walk through one of his landscapes may yield stickers and burrs in your socks, water that soaks through your boots, and a need to watch your footing. These are landscapes that resist sentimentality, presenting nature as explosively fruitful even as it consumes.

Simultaneously, these are abstract expressions that create their own densely interwoven landscapes of the mind where the heavy weight of vegetation and the rumble of distant ruins remind us of our obligation as stewards of the earth, and foretell a land where the fae may have returned.