Drawing titled "Glimpse (Veiled Sur…" by Kristopher Lionel, Original Artwork, Charcoal Mounted on Wood Panel

Glimpse (Veiled Surface, Iteration 3) (2018) Drawing by Kristopher Lionel

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Drawing, Charcoal / Ink / Oil / Pigments / Wood / Collages 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 48in, Width 76.5in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Drawings under $20,000 Surrealism Abstract

Christopher Brown. 'Glimpse (Veiled Surface, Iteration 3)'. 2023. Charcoal and Oil on Paper Glued to Panel. 43 x 76.5 x 2 inches. Features recessed shapes veneered in paper.

'Glimpse (Veiled Surface, Iteration 3)' is informed by Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. It is a large piece intended to envelop and immerse the viewer so that the experience of the work may provide respite, a space for quiet reflection.

The piece features recessed shapes, 1.5 inch and .75 inch deep, that are backed and edged with collages of drawings on paper. These recessed shapes are set in the context of a purely expressive field of line, shape, tonality, and texture. The drawings include representational fragments cropped and grouped in an abstract sequence meant to suggest incomplete or partial memories, fading, or forming thoughts. 'Glimpse (Veiled Surface, Iteration 3)' was inspired by the way bits of memory or imaginings can sometimes meld together, incongruously rearranging themselves into dreamlike glimpses, elusive visions.

The works in the series 'Veiled Surface (Iterations)' are offshoots from a series called 'Surfaces'. The first step in making my Iterations is to veil (cover) a piece from 'Surfaces' by laying paper on it. I then use charcoal, chalk, or pencil to make a rubbing that lifts an impression (sketch) from the surface in which the bas-relief cuts and textures underneath are transferred to the paper. This is the first glimpse through the veil. I build upon these sketches with oils and other media, examining the limitless ways that mark, material application, and color, affect composition, mood, and meaning within the pieces. Two works that demonstrate how different the Iterations can be are: 'Each Reign Spills Into The Sea (Veiled Surface, Iteration 5)', which conveys an impression of the sea and the motion of waves, and 'Ascending The Thermals (Veiled Surface Iteration 15)', which evokes a sense of hot moving air.

Revisiting similar initial compositions through these iterations is a practice of seeing the familiar anew, of interpreting the shrouded glances beneath the veil into clear expressions that are uniquely independent of other works in the series. While working on this series, I remembered a quote from William Blake's poem "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." In this series, I've set myself to seeing through the veil both literally and figuratively. Looking upon the same thing over and again but always seeing something new is to pull back a veil that exists only in one's mind.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

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.

Ink

A strongly tinted liquid or paste that is used to mark paper or other printable materials. The design is done manually with a slab, feather, brush, or straightener.

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.

Pigments

Paint made with colored powder suspended in a liquid binder to obtain some paint or ink.

Wood

Sculpture technique using wood, natural material of plant origin.

Collages

Collage is an artistic creation technique that consists of making a plastic creation by combining elements of various kinds: more or less flat materials, such as printed oilcloth, painting or drawing, newspaper extracts with text and photos, paper paintings, documents, various objects of low relief, etc. When the creation incorporates elements in relief, one can also speak of assemblage. This also includes glued papers, which employ a variety of papers, including newspaper, and drawing techniques.

Surrealism

Founded in 1923 by the writer André Breton, it will unite many artists like Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Max Ernst, René Magritte (1898-1967), Victor Brauner (1903-1966). Influenced by psychoanalysis, they see psychic life as a new field for renewing the arts. They will develop new ways to create and use new materials.

Technic Drawing

Drawing is a technique of visual representation on a flat support. The term "drawing" designates both the action of drawing, the resulting graphic work, and the shape of any object. It is also a representation on a surface of the shape (and possibly the light and shadow values) of an object or figure, rather than their color. There are a large number of drawing techniques: “Linear drawing” represents objects by their outlines, edges and some characteristic lines; beyond this limit, the drawing develops by representing the volume by shadows, often by means of hatching, incorporates colors, and joins, without clear transition, the painting.

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.