Christian Brandner
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he paintings of Christian Brandner represent the unconscious mind liberated through imagination, taking the viewer into a universe of personal visions and feelings where the everyday, rational world blends with alternate realities.
Brandner goes deep into the well-spring of his inspiration and comes up with a free association of human and abstract forms to create a balanced world in a chaotic universe that transcends the mundane and exists on a plane somewhere between reality and a dream. He uses a muted palette that can go from cool color schemes of blues and umbers to warm or-
anges and browns mixed with resins and heightened with gold or silver leaf to represent the sometimes startling, dreamlike images. Birth is a recurrent theme in Brandner's work. His search for artistic expression leads him to create images of sensual, soft and exquisite female torsos intermingled with embryos floating in their own universe, tied to nowhere by twisting umbilical cords, or human forms floating in space like the celestial bodies that surround them.
Christian Brandner lives and works in New York, where he has developed a successful career collaborating with interior designers and architects while developing his own personal vision.