Kyle Sorensen takes a landscape — a shoreline, a stand of trees, a body in a room — and asks how little it takes to make you feel it. His answer, rendered in sharp planes and bold color, turns out to be not much. Just the right geometry. Just the right light. What remains after Sorensen's reduction is somehow more present than what was there before. Sorensen is a Canadian contemporary artist whose work explores landscape and the human figure through the language of geometric abstraction. Working primarily in acrylic, he distills both place and presence into fractured planes of color and form, drawing from the visual traditions of Cubism and hard-edge painting while maintaining a contemporary sensibility. Inspired by the terrain of Northern Ontario and the waters of Georgian Bay, Sorensen begins with a specific location —observed, photographed, and later reduced in the studio. Landscapes translate into simplified geometric structures, where three-dimensional environments flatten into rhythmic compositions defined by bold color and sharp transitions. He applies the same reductive approach to figurative subjects, breaking human forms into angular planes and tonal shifts that emphasize posture, weight, and relationship rather than detail. Across both bodies of work, the question is the same: how complexity can be clariified through simplification, and how memory and emotion remain present even as forms are pared back. Sorensen’s work has been exhibited widely across North America since his first solo exhibition in 2013. He was nominated for the BMO 1st Art Award in 2013. Work by Kyle Sorensen is available through Illumine Gallery. Please inquire for commissions and shipping.