Mara Pollins Costello Engages the Terror and Beauty of the Sublime in Her Landscape Works

And then again, sometimes an artist makes such a stunning leap in their work that some of us who have been watching their progress for a while are left dazzled in the process. Such was the case with Mara Pollins Costello's work last summer. I remember walking into a small exhibition that she was part of and being stunned by what I was looking at: Instead of being confronted by the landscape paintings that I had come to associate with her, Pollins Costello had mounted a sharp shard of glass that ...