Painting titled "Untethering" by Kristopher Lionel, Original Artwork, Oil Mounted on Wood Panel

Untethering (2020) Painting by Kristopher Lionel

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

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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 26.3in, Width 16in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Paintings under $1,000 Expressionism Abstract

Christopher Brown. 'Untethering'. 2020. Oil on Paper Glued to Panel. 26.25 x 16 x 1.75 inches.

For the piece 'Untethering' I created the initial sketch from a work titled 'Beat of the Dragonflies Wings (Surface 1)', then added geometric elements before applying oils to create an entirely different composition of new "spaces" and visual movement unique and unbound to the piece to which it refers. The introduction of geometric lines into the composition is a significant enough change in process to move 'Untethering' into a place outside of the other works in series 'Veiled Surface Iterations'.

'Untethering', is informed by Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, (Surrealism in that I give the unconscious/subconscious mind considerable liberty while working and Abstract Expressionism in so much as the pieces are not rooted in, nor do they mirror, translate, or represent, objective reality). While 'Untethering' is similar to the works in the ongoing series titled 'Veiled Surface Iterations', the introduction of geometric shapes is a departure from the series putting this piece in place of it's own.

Free from objective subject, I employ color, line, shape, material, and composition for aesthetic reasons, as “notes” struck in dynamic, gestural ways as well as quietly and reflectively played. These “notes” occupy visual spaces that are emotive and contemplative—internal, inward-looking spaces.

The works in the series 'Veiled Surface (Iterations)' are offshoots from another series called 'Surfaces'. Revisiting similar initial compositions through these iterations is a practice of seeing the familiar anew. Working with the same or similar lines and shapes enables me to examine the ways that mark (paint application) and color affect composition, mood, and meaning within the pieces. Through the application of various materials and techniques, each piece assumes a singular expression uniquely independent of other works in the series. While thinking about my approach to this series, I remembered a quote from William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence" that speaks to the repetitive aspect of working through these Iterations, of looking intently on the known to find variance: "To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

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.

Chalk

Drawing made with chalk, a white marine rock that is traditionally white in colour and can sometimes be coloured.

Charcoal

Drawing made with a branch of Willow or charcoal of charred Europe. It enables to obtain very deep blacks, precise traces, thin or on the contrary very broad, depending on the way it is used.

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.