Anthony explores regeneration, hopefulness, and solace to tell a story of survival. Refugia are bio-environments that support small populations of once-widespread species, spanning millennia as habitats to which elements of life retreat under environmental strain. In the works, his distinctive landscape figurations in paint and charcoal on a single surface are evolved through a more layered, complex, and intimate process. He varies his treatment of intertwining stone to suggest a deeper confluence of land and body. In nature, and in affairs of the human heart, survival often necessitates reinvention in near-continuous states of flux. Be they mediations on perseverance or the nature of change, the works in Refugia reside at the fluid intersection of the organic and the unyielding, at the axis of time and timelessness.
