Sharon Butler blogs about the exhibition Karen Marston: New Paintings at Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, on view through September 16, 2012

Butler writes: "Influenced by 19th-century landscape masters such as George Inness, Thomas Cole, and Frederic Edwin Church, Marston appears to suggest that our emotional connection with nature is overly mediated and rooted in nostalgia. Also included in the show are several lovely en plein air paintings, which are less dramatic, but more emotionally direct."