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It will take some time to see Carly Burnell’s paintings. Featuring layers of oil paint, wax, and silicone, the surface of Burnell’s canvases appear to be in a perpetual state of change. Subtle shifts in color, stroke, and transparency create a prismatic effect that captures and reflects light as if they were alive. These features also present a limitless potential for form but do not concede to any. The paintings offer topographic vistas and microscopic events.

Impressionism as a movement and style was made possible with the advancement of technology. That technology was mass-produced, …