- Kathryn Geismar
- Beautiful Disaster #3, 2014
- oil on linen
- 24 x 36 x 1 in (60.96 x 91.44 x 2.54 cm)
- Signature: I sign my paintings on the back.
The Beautiful Disaster series explored the gorgeous imagery from the Deep Water Horizon oil spill, grappling with the incongruity of the environmental devastation and the dramatically beautiful nature of the still photography that documented the disaster. This is the third piece exploring a single iconic image of the plumes of smoke against the blue sky and mirrored in the reflective surface of the water.