AUSTIN, TEXAS.- The Austin Museum of Art presents Charles Mary Kubricht: Scanning the Grand Canyon, on view through August 7, 2005. Painter Charles Mary Kubricht distills experiences of time and nature into monumental visions of one of the earth's most spectacular environments. While rafting through the Grand Canyon she captured the changing light and geology of the journey by using her digital camera as an "electronic sketchbook." Back in the studio she transformed the images into thirteen large-scale paintings, each constructed of a grid of forty-nine small painted panels. Balancing representation with abstraction, these richly patterned colored fields carry the viewer down the river, through a day, and past epochs of geologic time.