VANTA - Persistence IX - NO RESERVE

Persistence
Persistence is a painting series exploring the way an image of light stays with the eye — the soft afterimage that hovers in vision after looking, the way a hue can imprint itself and linger even once the source has moved on. Each work holds a quiet, radiant core that seems to persist against the surface, a color pressed gently into the eye and slow to leave it.

The works are in conversation with James Turrell's investigations of perceptual space, and draw on the chromatic fields of Mark Rothko, the saturated immersions of Yves Klein, and the soft gradients of Wolfgang Tillmans' abstract photograms — artists for whom color, edge, and transition carry the weight that line and form do elsewhere.

Each canvas begins with thin, vibrant acrylic laid in layered fields. A wide brush is drawn across the surface in a single, repeated motion until the pigment thins to near-transparency, allowing the white of the canvas beneath to glow through. Under certain lighting the paintings stop reading as paint entirely and seem lit from within.
A varnish finishes each work with a glossy, reflective skin that deepens the sense of looking into rather than at the surface.
Persistence is a series about what stays — the quiet endurance of color in the eye, the way a hue can outlast its moment and hold on softly, long after the looking has ended.


Shipping:
This series of paintings ships stretched on a wooden stretcher bar and is basically ready to hang.
Measurements listed are those of the finished piece on the stretcher frame — the actual canvas fabric is larger (4-5 cm on each side)


Disclaimer:
Process photos included in the listing show studies and works in progress, as well as close up photos of showing the structure of the canvas.