smoke the moon presents Double Nature, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Chrissy Angliker (New York, NY). Angliker’s immersive, heavily textural paintings will be on view throughout the Casita gallery from June 27 - August 3, 2025. Double Nature elaborates on the embrace of the double and its emotional depths.

Through the artist’s deft and practiced hand, paint takes on a personality and body of its own. Layers of globular, vivid acrylics reach into their own three dimensional space off the canvas. Angliker’s paintings gesture to some visceral place of creation, relishing in the immediate implication of process with their resolution. Her paintings make evident a personal reverence for paint and its unpredictability. Angliker has honed an intuitive relationship with her medium. 

The artist's new body of work emerges from her time in residency in Taos, NM. There, Angliker rekindled a connection to her personal heritage through time spent in the waters and valleys of northern New Mexico. Originally set out to paint a series of adobe interiors during her time in Taos, Angliker quickly changed course when she experienced the power of the Rio Grande Gorge. Descending into the totalizing fissure of desert earth, Angliker was transported back to Switzerland, where she spent her early years. At the base of the Gorge two bodies of water sit in contrast to each other: the churning, rushing river and a series of perfectly still hot springs on the rivers banks. 

Duality becomes malleable in Angliker’s newest body of work. Her reference to a nature that doubles can be seen throughout the abstracting figures and wild scenes within her paintings. Flesh and terrain meet, meld and differentiate at different moments. A body of water and its morphological impulse is encapsulated in Angliker’s work. Everything made of the same core, gazing into a reflecting pool of its own nature. 

There is an echo throughout Double Nature; an uncanny connective force that unites the series and the viewer. The origin point floats toward the present moment. The landscape is also its own reflection, as are the bodies in the pool. Large, unifying forces at play within Angliker’s paintings start to blend her personal memories into the collective consciousness. Water, bodies, memory, and a distinct sense of a return within the unknown serve as buoys toward a relational visuality. Angliker reminds us with a keen eye that being set adrift becomes its own form of coming home.