After artist Diane Burko flew over Lake Powell toward the Grand Canyon in the 1970s, she began her first great landscape series, which inspired years of work depicting large-scale geological spaces like volcanoes and snow caps. But in 2006, when Burko questioned if the snow caps still had snow on them, she launched herself into a scientific investigation of the world's changing environment.
In an exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Burko portrayed Grinnell Glacier in Montana in four time periods between 1920 and 2006, where the glacier loses mass in each painting. A new exhibit that displays a selection of her paintings and photography will be available to view at the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia later this month.
