Casper Brindle’s paintings are explorations of the expressive possibilities of color, light and form. His palette ranges from spectacularly technicolor to subtly monochromatic, but ever present is the notion of center. Whether it’s a striking, hard-edge horizon line running through the painting or a metallic bar floating on the surface, there is always a form that pulls us deeper into the imagery that Brindle presents. A contemporary disciple of the 1960s & 70s Light and Space generation, Brindle too is intrigued by the sensory experiences triggered by color and light. His expansive paintings shift and morph as the viewer walks past them, compelling them to pause and begin to explore the enigmatic spaces of perception. Brindle has referred to the process in which he creates his works as trance-like, and one can’t help but notice the meditative quality these paintings induce. Brindle’s work has clear ties to the materiality of the Finish Fetish and Light and Space movements, and his masterful use of color invokes the emotive qualities of painters like Mark Rothko and Jules Olitski. However, Brindle synthesizes sensibilities from these disparate movements and creates something entirely his own. Brindle’s paintings envelop the viewer in expansive fields that not only delight the senses, but have the power to elicit deeper emotional responses. Utilizing tools and techniques adopted from Southern California’s distinctive car culture, Brindle applies fine layers of airbrushed sprays to create atmospheric gradations of subtle depth. In his early works, Brindle often embedded glowing tubes of LEDs in his paintings, but he has now managed to harness the effect of light solely with color. Born in Toronto in 1968, Brindle’s family relocated to Los Angeles in 1974, and he has called the city home ever since. Growing up surfing the beaches of LA’s coast undoubtedly made a profound impact on the artist. Brindle started painting as a teen and in his early twenties, he apprenticed for the pioneering Light and Space artist, Eric Orr. Casper Brindle’s work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally. His work is held in a number of prominent private and museum collections including the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation and the Morningside College Collection in Sioux City, IA. Light Glyph and Portal Glyph Series A most ancient form of communication, a glyph is a symbol or mark carved in relief to convey ideas without words. Transformative and mysterious, Casper Brindle’s newest series, the Glyphs, continues his investigation into the expressive possibilities of color and form while utilizing new materials and modes of production. These enigmatic pieces tend more toward sculptural objects than painting, each a single sheet of shimmering metallic color encased in a transparent shell, punctuated only by a radiant central form. These central forms seem to be emerging from the void, single origin points that simultaneously appear to be moving through space and frozen in time. A glowing push and pull ensue as the viewer circles the piece, the object before them shifting before their eyes. Meant to be experienced, they cause the viewer to question what they’re seeing while they’re looking. This reductive imagery is powerful in its simplicity. The slim bar of neon color that cuts through the picture plane invites a quiet reverence, as form seems to materialize from the abyss, in an act of technicolor alchemy. Lucio Fontana’s powerful slashed canvases come to mind when regarding these works, in which form energetically cuts through space in an attempt to create a new dimension. Brindle’s work follows this trajectory, break ing from the traditional confines of paint and canvas, presenting the viewer with evocative imagery that alludes to something beyond the limits of our understanding. Brindle combines repetition of form and brilliant swathes of pure color to create his visual language, which be comes a meditation on experience and perception. The rigidity of the hard-edge shapes and boundaries of the picture plane is softened by the use of unexpected and sensuous colors. The confluence of these elements results in a sensation of boundless energy that seems to want to burst forth from the picture plane and extend ever outward through space, despite its confinement to the picture plane. The tension in these works presents the viewer with a series of intriguing dualities, they seem to float in the space between reality and illusion, the finite and the infinite. SELECT EXHIBITIONSHyper Modality, Luckman Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, CA - Curated by Mika Cho Ronald H Silverman Gallery, CSULA, (We are LA) Contemporary Art from the Frederick Weisman Art Foundation La Patinoire Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels, Belgium (BRAFA Fair) La Patinoire Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels, Belgium Art Project, Maui, Hawaii Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA Surfrider Foundation, Malibu, CA Pallete to Palate, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Art1307, Napoli, Italy Surfing Heritage Museum Benefit, Orange County CA VFC Foundation, Venice, CA Artist and Architects, Joe’s, Venice CA SIMA, Laguna Beach, CA Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach CA Heal The Bay Auction Darkwave Exhibition, The IGM Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA