Artist: Victoria Wagner

Title: Space Time Vortex

Medium: Oil on redwood

Dimensions: 12 X 11 X 10 in

In a physical sense, Victoria Wagner's abstract compositions inhabit perceptual space, vibrational color relationships and craft. Of this, she blames her formative years spent in the high Nevada desert in a reservation town where light was sharp and dramatic, the mountains governed the atmosphere and the sky commanded more peripheral vision than one is capable of perceiving. She continuously looks toward the land for inspiration and practical materials to speak through as a demonstration of our oneness with the materiality and spirit of the land and cosmos.

Making the connection between the infinite nature of the cosmos, our physical fragility and boundless emotional landscape, Wagner's work and practical research marry the esoteric, mystic, natural, mysterious and future possible. The latent and coded narrative that each material brings to mind, activates our relationship to natural resources, industrialization and cosmology. Her minimal yet unrestrained compositions (whether canvas, panel, found wood, ceramic or aluminum) combine recognizable geometries and color dynamic through natural, synthetic and industrial materials, layering the surface like a bold and complicated narrative in which one is often implicated by their own reflection in the pieces.