Installation view of Green River, 2006 (east wall).

The Green River flows out of the Cascade Mountains into Puget Sound in the northwest corner of the Pacific Northwest, a natural terminus for the Northwest Passage sought by Lewis and Clark.

Over the past year, Munro Galloway has made a painting every day. He has also traveled, visiting some old places and some new. The resulting works (oil on gessoed paper), form a calendar of days, featuring fireworks over the Hudson, the empty lots of Williamsburg cleared for re-building, a rest stop near the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, the strip of Miami Beach, a man-made mountain outside Los Angeles, the Interstate in Montana and Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascade Mountains. Hung tightly together they form a mural, a hand-made map for a western road trip, complete with detours and missed exits.

For Galloway, the paintings are like a mix tape of punk blasts, extended jams, covers and b-sides, a soundtrack and a filmstrip running back and forth from the studio overlooking the East River westward to the mouth of the Green River.

Installation view of Green River, 2006 (north wall above, south wall below).