Christine Rasmussen

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

As a painter I investigate the in-between, seeking transcendence in the everyday. My subtly textured, luminous oil paintings offer antidotes to overwhelm, a reprieve from the overstimulation of our fast-paced digital age. In my slow, meditative layering of paints, I contemplate notions of attention, stillness, uncertainty and the sublime in the ordinary. Exploring color and form, my simplified compositions are concerned less with real places than with mood and our rich inner lives. Finding wonder in mundane moments – like looking up to see the light glowing off a freeway overpass while stuck in traffic below – can reset one’s nervous system. Elevating the beauty of liminal spaces shifts one’s attention to the possibilities in the quiet periphery. Revealing more the longer one looks, my tiny brushstrokes invite viewers to slow down, be present and linger in the details.

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