Painting titled "Ethereal Structure…" by Kristopher Lionel, Original Artwork, Resin Mounted on Wood Panel

Ethereal Structure (Red on Blue #2) (2019) Painting by Kristopher Lionel

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Resin / Oil on Paper

Artworks classification

One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 28.8in, Width 23.5in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Paintings under $5,000 Abstract Geometric

Christopher Brown. 'Ethereal Structure (Red on Blue #2)'. 2019. Oil on Paper Glued to Panel, Epoxy, Tiger Maple. 28.75 x 23.5 inches.

'Ethereal Structure (Red on Blue #2)' is part of a grouping of works titled 'Dots and Ethereal Structures'.

'Dots and Ethereal Structures' are related works in which I approached painting as sculpture. In painting, it's conventionally accepted that paint is applied directly to the surface of a work. As a sculptor, with a sculptor's a point of view, I was interested in taking a different tack. I decided to apply paint not just to the surface of the work, but also to physically place/float color and shape in front of the surface; I achieved this by insetting pigmented epoxy into heavy clear-coats of catalyzed epoxy finish.

Color, atmospheric effect, perspective, and material use, were employed throughout this series to find visual tensions that are created when that which is physically real and tangible is juxtaposed with the imaginary, and illusory. The pieces from 'Dots and Ethereal Structures' are about how space and depth (both real and fictitious), as well as visual movement and energy (achieved through color and perspective), combine to create expressive works.

To create visual vibrations, saturated colors were placed on and in front of colors that are, or approach, their compliments. These seemingly “vibrating” colors, where the edges of two directly adjacent colors appear to merge, blur and glow, giving the illusion of motion, is a phenomena that occurs with the use of bold and highly saturated color schemes (especially when the colors are compliments).

Dots and perspective line drawings were set into clear epoxy coats where they float in front of atmospheric fields of color to create the illusion of space, of three-dimensional structures suspended in air. A close look will reveal that these dots and drawings cast actual, real shadows onto the surfaces behind them.

The works from 'Dots and Ethereal Structures' were informed by Abstract Expressionism. The pieces in this grouping are not rooted in, nor do they mirror, translate, or represent, objective reality. Free from objective subject, color, line, atmosphere, perspective and material were used for aesthetic reasons, to create visually compelling, evocative artworks.

*Please Note:

'Ethereal Structure (Red on Blue #2)' features a tiger maple (also know as curly maple) boarder that served to create a reservoir into which catalyzed epoxy resin, clear finish was poured. In this process, the resin captured the "frame" making it a permanently integrated/joined, part of the work that can not be removed. The piece arrives ready to hang.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Resin

Sculpture technique using a polymer product (natural, artificial or synthetic) to make a sculpture.

Oil

Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Kristopher Lionel

United States

Christopher Brown is a contemporary American artist. Brown's worldview has been softly but substantially inspired by nature, and as a result, his life and art have been guided[...]

Christopher Brown is a contemporary American artist. Brown's worldview has been softly but substantially inspired by nature, and as a result, his life and art have been guided by it. His creative process alternates between gazing outward and turning inward. Years of seeing and analyzing the causes and effects of the natural world's changes and decline have given him a clear awareness of the damage we've done and continue to do to the planet. His art serves both an outlet and an antidote for him (shifting between his allegorical, Happy War paintings and his abstract works).

Turning inward and immersing himself in Abstract Expressionism provides him with comfort. Exploring shape, color, and the repetition of line in his work, as well as parsing the layers and visual spaces in his art, is a mantra that frees him from the weight of the world. He began to view his abstract paintings as "music for the eyes", in which shape, color, and line are solely expressionistic notes occasionally blended with representational pictures that appear to be poetic lyrics.

Christopher Brown was born in the USA. Brown attended the art program at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, where he received his BFA. He then went on to Washington University in St. Louis, MO, where he received his MFA.