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LS No. 136

$5,800.00

Brandon McKenzie
LS No. 136, 2025
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
48 × 48 in
Contemporary abstract painting

The Artwork

At an expansive 48 × 48 inches, LS No. 136 turns McKenzie’s restrained language of tonal contrast into an immersive spatial experience. A broad dark-grey upper field establishes gravity and depth, while the lower half shifts into a pale-grey register where graphite marks hover with a lighter, more provisional presence.

The horizontal division creates a visual tension between compression and openness. Rather than functioning as a literal landscape, the composition evokes the memory of a horizon—an abstracted sense of land, atmosphere, and distance distilled through McKenzie’s process of reduction. The work’s scale allows its layered surface to unfold gradually, revealing faint blue-grey graphite gestures, softened edges, and subtle traces of earlier revisions.

LS No. 136 reflects the artist’s interest in painting as a living record rather than a fixed image. Its dark field holds the density of accumulation; its lighter passage offers room for light, erasure, and visual breath. Together, they create a composition that is disciplined, contemplative, and quietly commanding.

Specifications & Details

  • Artist: Brandon McKenzie

  • Title: LS No. 136

  • Year: 2025

  • Medium: Acrylic and graphite on canvas

  • Dimensions: 48 × 48 in

  • Style: Contemporary abstract painting

  • Frame: Handmade by the artist; included

Brandon McKenzie
LS No. 136, 2025
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
48 × 48 in
Contemporary abstract painting

The Artwork

At an expansive 48 × 48 inches, LS No. 136 turns McKenzie’s restrained language of tonal contrast into an immersive spatial experience. A broad dark-grey upper field establishes gravity and depth, while the lower half shifts into a pale-grey register where graphite marks hover with a lighter, more provisional presence.

The horizontal division creates a visual tension between compression and openness. Rather than functioning as a literal landscape, the composition evokes the memory of a horizon—an abstracted sense of land, atmosphere, and distance distilled through McKenzie’s process of reduction. The work’s scale allows its layered surface to unfold gradually, revealing faint blue-grey graphite gestures, softened edges, and subtle traces of earlier revisions.

LS No. 136 reflects the artist’s interest in painting as a living record rather than a fixed image. Its dark field holds the density of accumulation; its lighter passage offers room for light, erasure, and visual breath. Together, they create a composition that is disciplined, contemplative, and quietly commanding.

Specifications & Details

  • Artist: Brandon McKenzie

  • Title: LS No. 136

  • Year: 2025

  • Medium: Acrylic and graphite on canvas

  • Dimensions: 48 × 48 in

  • Style: Contemporary abstract painting

  • Frame: Handmade by the artist; included

Biography

Brandon McKenzie is a contemporary abstract painter who creates paintings that investigate rhythm, process, and restraint through pared-down compositions and a largely grayscale palette accented by graphite. Each work develops over time through repeated reworking, with every layer responding to the traces beneath it and reinforcing his belief that process is primary and product is secondary. Rooted in early studies of the geometric farmlands of western Kansas, McKenzie’s current series distills those landscapes into more open, spatial arrangements while preserving the tension between structure, gesture, addition, and erasure. By limiting color and emphasizing light, space, and layered surfaces, his paintings create a quiet balance between disorder and arrangement.

“My paintings evolve through a rhythm of layering and reduction, with each mark shaped by what came before it. The process leads the work forward through repetition, movement, and reaction, while my current series translates the geometry of the rural landscapes into something quieter and more open. I’m interested in how light, space, and essential form emerge from what remains.”

– Brandon McKenzie