CHARLES GULBRANDSENUpon graduating from Cooper Union, Charles began his career in art restoration and painting large murals for private clients. His abstract work has evolved into a mature phase which is uniquely his own.Charles uses aggressive brushwork and multiple glazing layers. Beginning with a series of arching gestures and like a photograph coming into focus, organic structures slowly emerge from luminous nebulae. The dance of turbulence and harmony, opacity and translucency. These ethereal and luminous realms at first seem to be a familiar part of the natural world and yet, remain somehow other. This process allows Gulbrandsen to explore the encounter between the natural and perceived world by synthesizing these contradictory elements into a unified field.