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LS No. 93

$2,000.00

Brandon McKenzie
LS No. 93, 2025
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
20 × 24 in
Contemporary abstract painting

The Artwork

In LS No. 93, Brandon McKenzie organizes the canvas around a measured exchange between dark mass and open light. The upper field is saturated in deep charcoal grey, while the lower portion opens into a softer pale-grey expanse marked by restrained graphite activity. The division feels architectural without becoming fixed—less a horizon than a pause between weight and release.

Subtle graphite lines and blue-tinged traces animate the lighter field, preserving evidence of the artist’s process beneath the final composition. McKenzie builds his surfaces through repeated layering, reduction, and revision, allowing prior decisions to remain present as faint visual memory. The result is a painting that feels calm at first glance yet quietly active on closer viewing.

Compact in scale, LS No. 93 distills the central concerns of McKenzie’s practice: structure softened by gesture, darkness balanced by light, and an image that emerges through the accumulated history of its own making.

Specifications & Details

  • Artist: Brandon McKenzie

  • Title: LS No. 93

  • Year: 2025

  • Medium: Acrylic and graphite on canvas

  • Dimensions: 20 × 24 in

  • Style: Contemporary abstract painting

  • Frame: Handmade by the artist; included

Brandon McKenzie
LS No. 93, 2025
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
20 × 24 in
Contemporary abstract painting

The Artwork

In LS No. 93, Brandon McKenzie organizes the canvas around a measured exchange between dark mass and open light. The upper field is saturated in deep charcoal grey, while the lower portion opens into a softer pale-grey expanse marked by restrained graphite activity. The division feels architectural without becoming fixed—less a horizon than a pause between weight and release.

Subtle graphite lines and blue-tinged traces animate the lighter field, preserving evidence of the artist’s process beneath the final composition. McKenzie builds his surfaces through repeated layering, reduction, and revision, allowing prior decisions to remain present as faint visual memory. The result is a painting that feels calm at first glance yet quietly active on closer viewing.

Compact in scale, LS No. 93 distills the central concerns of McKenzie’s practice: structure softened by gesture, darkness balanced by light, and an image that emerges through the accumulated history of its own making.

Specifications & Details

  • Artist: Brandon McKenzie

  • Title: LS No. 93

  • Year: 2025

  • Medium: Acrylic and graphite on canvas

  • Dimensions: 20 × 24 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