Kristen Brown

Vanishing Point, Oil Painting

2025

Artist Comments
Deep blue tones envelop a blurred San Francisco cityscape, evoking a dreamlike memory of a fleeting moment. The triangular panel enhances the composition’s unique perspective, reinforcing its abstract and surreal quality. The interplay of light and shadow suggests movement, as if the image is dissolving into time itself.

About the Artist
Artist Kristen Brown sheds light on the fragility of memories with her dreamlike portraits. Kristen uses her knowledge of photography to create motion blur, distortion and multiple exposures in her oil paintings, overlapping figures, landscapes and cityscapes. The models in her paintings are referenced from people close to her, and the locations are significant places from various time periods throughout her life. "I will often use multiple places or time periods in a painting to illustrate the idea of being taken back into a past moment from a current one, or the idea of the past and present feeling as though they are happening simultaneously," she explains. In the rare cases when she is not painting, you can find her printmaking, dabbling in ceramics, traveling, playing guitar or meditating. Kristen graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.

Words that describe this painting: monochrome, memory, dreamlike, San Francisco, triangle, street, road, facade, cool, architecture, expressionism, travel, oil painting, blue

Vanishing Point
Kristen Brown
Oil painting on masonite board
Natural wood edges
Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2025
7 in. h x 14 in. w x .75 in. d
1 lbs. 5 oz.