VANTA - Horizon VIII - NO RESERVE

Horizon
A continuation of the First Light series, Horizon extends the inquiry into how paint can become light. Where First Light concentrated luminosity into radiant cores, Horizon lets it stretch — pulling the glow into broader bands and atmospheric thresholds, the way light gathers along the edge of a sky before it resolves into day.
The works remain in conversation with James Turrell's investigations of perceptual space, but also draw on the soft chromatic fields of Mark Rothko, the saturated immersions of Yves Klein, and the digital gradients of Peter Saville and 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 light the paintings stop reading as paint entirely and seem lit from within — less a depicted horizon than the sensation of one. A heavy varnish finishes each work with a glossy, reflective skin that deepens the sense of looking into rather than at the surface.
If First Light was about the first registration of color against the eye, Horizon is about what comes next: the moment light begins to settle into space, when atmosphere takes on dimension and the edge between seeing and sensing softens into a band of pure color.

Shipping:
Shipped unframed, rolled in a protective tube. This keeps shipping costs down and avoids damage in transit. The work can be restretched easily by a framer or at home. Measurements listed are those of the finished piece stretched on a standard frame — the actual canvas is slightly larger (2–4 cm on each side) to allow for mounting.

Disclaimer:
Process photos included in the listing show studies and works in progress.