Donna Czapiga's complex paintings utilize renaissance glazing techniques and cartoonish enamel abstractions, creating a dichotomy of styles. Lush, moody surfaces pulsate between lighter gestural marks, creating continuous shifts of allusion from carefully layered landscapes to abrupt figuration.

The wood panels the artist utilizes as supports for exquisitely prepared grounds create an "objectness" accentuated by carefully considered edges - paradoxical to the thin varnished layers of pigment that seem to be part liquid, part vapor. This viscous surface has the appearance of tainted honey or milk and seems virtually edible.