One-second Hudson

The paintings in One-Second Hudson are based on fifteen consecutive frames that constitute a single second of video shot from a train between New York City and Dia:Beacon. I wanted to see what one second, pulled apart, might look like. Each frame became a small painting in oil on linen. The paintings are modest in scale, easel-size, and intentionally conventional in material: oil on linen, on a traditional horizontal landscape format. They echo the Hudson River School, ironically evoked in passing, at high speed, through a nameless suburb along the banks of the river. The GIF here reanimates the sequence, reconstructing the motion of the original video through the paintings.