Abstraction With Volume.
by Christopher Durst
Large scale abstraction informed by music, movement, and lived experience.
Most works begin without a fixed outcome. Built through instinct, accumulation, and response, the paintings evolve through layers of gesture, texture, and disruption rather than predetermined plans.
What emerges is less about representation and more about presence. The work explores emotion as atmosphere, allowing memory, tension, and movement to surface through the process itself.
Featured Work
RESIDUAL MEMORY
60 × 48 in
Acrylic, spray paint, oil stick, and mixed media on canvas
The Work
The work exists somewhere between refinement and noise, atmosphere and collision. I’m drawn to the emotional residue left behind by human experience—the feeling of a crowded room, a passing memory, a moment of tension, or the energy that lingers after everything else has disappeared.
Rather than illustrating those experiences directly, the paintings seek to embody them through texture, movement, scale, and atmosphere.
Before The Canvas
I spent years documenting music culture before ever stepping behind a canvas—chasing atmosphere, energy, movement, and the moments that existed somewhere between chaos and connection.
The Same Instinct
The photographs above document moments that helped shape my creative perspective. Years spent immersed in music culture offered an education in energy, rhythm, human connection, and the emotional weight of shared experience. The paintings that followed draw from those same influences, translated through texture, atmosphere, movement, and scale.
Different mediums. The same pursuit of presence, energy, and human connection.
Select works are available for acquisition.
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