The Colors Of Water
Artists dive in, at City Gallery "Sea Glass" exhibit.
by Brian Slattery, New Haven Independent (July 2026)
Kathy Kane's pair of paintings, Tidal Rush and Shimmer, hang close enough together on the wall of City Gallery that they can be read as flowing into one another, part of the same body of water. Kane's energetic brushstrokes convey a sense of constant motion, but, depriving the viewer of scale, she doesn't let the mind settle in one place. They could be close-ups of a brook babbling over pebbles. They could also be showing us a stretch of sea whipped by wind. From the human perspective, one is serene, the other dangerous; it's just a question of how big the waves are, and how big we are. But it's all the same to the water.