VANTA - Lumen III - NO RESERVE

Lumen
Lumen is a painting series exploring the felt presence of light — the way a single source of color can behave less like pigment and more like illumination, softening the edge between object and atmosphere. Each work centers on a radiant field of color that seems to emit rather than reflect, turning the surface of the canvas into something closer to a designed light — an intimate, hand-made counterpart to the immersive luminous environments explored in contemporary art and interior design.

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, the atmospheric installations of Olafur Eliasson, the pigment work of Anish Kapoor, the color meditations of Josef Albers, 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. Something of Dan Flavin's fluorescent geometries and Robert Irwin's perceptual light works also sits quietly in the background of the series — a lineage of makers interested in light as a material in its own right, alongside a broader modern design sensibility rooted in Bauhaus color theory and Scandinavian minimalism.

Each canvas is worked with fine art acrylic paint on cotton canvas, laid in thin, vibrant 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, taking on an almost luminous, lamp-like quality that shifts throughout the day. A heavy protective varnish finishes each work with a glossy, reflective skin that deepens the sense of looking into rather than at the surface — an archival finish suited to long-term collection and display in contemporary interiors, whether in a private home, a design-forward space, or a gallery setting.

Signed original contemporary abstract painting on canvas, hand-made in the studio as a unique one-of-a-kind piece of modern wall art — a quiet, atmospheric work at home in minimalist, mid-century modern, or contemporary design environments.
Lumen is a series about emission — color behaving as light, surface behaving as source, and the quiet radiance a painting can hold when pigment is pushed to the edge of transparency.


Shipping:
The work is delivered without a frame (professional packaging, rolled in a tube). it can easily be restretched by a professional or on your own, this is also cheaper then the otherwise increased cost of shipping when sending paintings stretched

The measurements indicated are those of the painting stretched and mounted on a frame (The actual measurements of the canvas are larger to allow it to be mounted on a frame 2-4 cm thick.


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.