the suburbanized landscape, specifically shoppingmall parking lots, seemed the perfect reflection of our time. familiar, generic, and loaded with cultural significance, this archetype of a contemporary environment would serve as a staring point for nash's exploration of the dialogue between image and abstraction. over time, she has internalized this landscape and created an iconography based on drawing and memory. images of lamp posts, cars, and gridlines are reduced, dissolving as they are described. references to abstraction and process echo the collision of the natural and artificial. in the most successful pieces, the viewer is aware of the tension created between the painting’s illusion and objectivity, process and image.

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