This original 18” x 24” monochromatic oil painting utilizes a variety of textures, patterns, and gestural brushstrokes to define two figures holding each other. Kristina’s interest in figurative painting continues to permeate this new body of work. The figures are both present and simultaneously disappearing, merging with their environment and each other while loosely holding their own space and form. Their universe is shifting and melding, mediated by the presence of a vertically-ruled pattern that distorts spatial and optical perception.

The painting has a clean 1.5” wooden edge, and is currently unframed.

Oil on panel, 18” x 24”, 2022