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Abstract Painting LS No. 93

$2,000.00

Brandon McKenzie
Contemporary Painting LS No. 93, 2025
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
20 × 24 in
Handmade artist frame included

The Artwork

In Contemporary Painting 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: Contemporary Painting LS No. 93

  • Year: 2025

  • Medium: Acrylic and graphite on canvas

  • Dimensions: 20 × 24 in

  • Frame: Handmade by the artist; included

Brandon McKenzie
Contemporary Painting LS No. 93, 2025
Acrylic and graphite on canvas
20 × 24 in
Handmade artist frame included

The Artwork

In Contemporary Painting 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: Contemporary Painting LS No. 93

  • Year: 2025

  • Medium: Acrylic and graphite on canvas

  • Dimensions: 20 × 24 in

  • Frame: Handmade by the artist; included

Jean Alexander Frater Biography

Jean Alexander Frater’s practice explores the material possibilities of painting, bringing together histories, traditions, and conceptual frameworks through works that are both visceral and formally rigorous. By folding, layering, cutting, and manipulating canvas like fabric, she transforms gestural marks into disruptions of form and meaning, developing a visual language shaped by ripples, grids, gradients, and stripes. Her woven and folded works move between large-scale physical presence and more intimate studies in color and structure, continually testing the boundary between painting and sculpture.

Frater holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Dayton. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Images Festival in Toronto, Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, and Aspect/Ratio in Chicago. She is also the director of Material, a nonprofit artist project space in Chicago, extending her commitment to experimentation and dialogue within contemporary art.

“I am interested in painting as a site of physical and conceptual transformation, where the canvas can be folded, cut, and reconfigured to carry a presence beyond image. Through surface, structure, and gesture, I try to let the material itself generate new meaning.”

– Jean Alexander Frater