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Stephen Friedman Gallery presents The letters of this alphabet were trees, an exhibition of new paintings by Canadian artist Sky Glabush, marking his New York debut. Based in the countryside near London, Ontario, Glabush is celebrated for his brilliantly colored landscapes depicting forests, fields, flowers, sea and sky. In these familiar yet stylized scenes, the exploration of color, light and form is mediated through the use of texture, resulting from mixing sand and oil paint.

The exhibition's title is borrowed from Seamus Heaney's poem Alphabets, in which a young child leaves the …