Artwork Description
Christina Hall-Strauss – Time Travelers 2
Dimensions: 36 x 28″ unframed
Year: 2024
Medium: acrylic and graphite on canvas
My artwork explores the natural world’s rhythms, tensions, and harmonies, reflecting my sensory perception of patterns, energies, atmospheres, and relationships.
I work with the interplay of color and movement, form and texture, and the idea of above and below, seen and unseen, with multiple layering in my paintings. The Southwestern landscape permeates my awareness of color and shape. The cycling of the New Mexico seasons, flights of birds, native flora, the Río Grande, and other rivers and arroyos continually visit my paintings. Travel intensifies my appreciation of the many forms and feelings in the world of nature. Asian aesthetics in crafts and painting also continue to be a great influence. I work with negative space by adding and subtracting shapes while building the surface to create an overall glow.