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Kirsten Glass: Light Trance Works

Past exhibition
27 July - 28 August 2020 Online
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Overview
Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020
Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

Kirsten Glass’s Light Trance Works are small canvases first conceived by the artist as a means of shedding everyday consciousness before she begins her larger abstract/figurative paintings. Working in a light trance is a deliberate method, as Glass says, to get out of her own way. She experiences this as a dissolving of her sense of identity and reforming it at will in a rhythmic expansion and contraction. In occult teaching, this can be described as visiting the astral plane. 

 

 Working on several paintings at once, Glass uses dark and bright colours, sand and glitter to create textured abstract compositions. With a compass, she scratches flowing lines and patterns from sacred geometry into the canvases, revealing underlayers of paint. This digging out of energies and patterns also provides a shorthand for expressing the unseen realities of the natural universe. To Glass, art is potentially the manifestation of a spiritual, magical process whether artists realise it or not. 

 

Each work contains distinct sections, an approach rooted in the collage mentality of her earlier work. This is another painterly means of setting up an interplay of visual and textual difference where the eventual harmony offers its own subtle narrative surprise or unexpected sense of presence. The resulting head-sized canvases are liminal landscapes infused with the boundless energy of a dream space. Working in a light trance, to Glass, is to be in collaboration with the astral plane. 

 

Karsten Schubert London is pleased to present this viewing room in anticipation of Glass's forthcoming solo show in Room 2. 

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Installation Views
  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2020

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Works
  • Kirsten Glass For Flora, 2020 Oil paint, glitter and sand on canvas 143 x 122 cm | 56 1/4 x 48 1/8 in
    Kirsten Glass
    For Flora, 2020
    Oil paint, glitter and sand on canvas
    143 x 122 cm | 56 1/4 x 48 1/8 in
  • Kirsten Glass Body, 2019–20 Acrylic on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Body, 2019–20
    Acrylic on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
  • Kirsten Glass Clearing, 2019–20 Oil, acrylic, glitter and sand on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Clearing, 2019–20
    Oil, acrylic, glitter and sand on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
  • Kirsten Glass Flatland, 2019–20 Oil, acrylic, glitter and sand on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Flatland, 2019–20
    Oil, acrylic, glitter and sand on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
  • Kirsten Glass Grassland, 2019–20 Acrylic and oil paint on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Grassland, 2019–20
    Acrylic and oil paint on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
  • Kirsten Glass Evening, 2019–20 Acrylic and oil paint on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Evening, 2019–20
    Acrylic and oil paint on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
  • Kirsten Glass Beltane, 2019–20 Oil, acrylic, glitter and sand on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Beltane, 2019–20
    Oil, acrylic, glitter and sand on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
  • Kirsten Glass Lantern, 2019–20 Acrylic and oil paint on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Lantern, 2019–20
    Acrylic and oil paint on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
  • Kirsten Glass Rising, 2019–20 Acrylic and oil paint on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Rising, 2019–20
    Acrylic and oil paint on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
  • Kirsten Glass Rooftop, 2019–20 Acrylic and oil paint on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Rooftop, 2019–20
    Acrylic and oil paint on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
  • Kirsten Glass Scrying, 2019–20 Acrylic and oil paint on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Scrying, 2019–20
    Acrylic and oil paint on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
  • Kirsten Glass Summer, 2019–20 Acrylic, oil paint and sand on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Summer, 2019–20
    Acrylic, oil paint and sand on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
  • Kirsten Glass Sunset, 2019–20 Acrylic and oil paint on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
    Kirsten Glass
    Sunset, 2019–20
    Acrylic and oil paint on canvas
    51 x 40.5 cm | 20 1/8 x 16 in
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