My work shows a world in flux: a world that is dissolving, or coming into being, or rupturing, or emanating light from its core. While my work spans across the mediums of painting, ceramics, and drawing, I consider myself to be primarily an abstract painter. I approach making as a generative problem solving process. Each new painting or sculpture poses a unique question for me to respond to through the language of my work. The pleasurable challenge of making is, for me, this infinite loop of asking and answering and asking again. Through this process, my work develops an elaborate internal logic that is further matured in each iteration. This insular system has the potential for infinite expansion. Formally, my work references the things that reside at the edges of our awareness and understanding, the impossibly big and the incomprehensibly small. Imagery of outer space, deep sea, unknowable land masses, holes in space and time, and windows to alternate realities emerge through my abstractions. They simultaneously suggest the mass and the void, breakage and repair, gravity and weightlessness.

Sydney Krantz is a Houston born artist living and working in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

email: skrantz@andrew.cmu.edu

instagram: @sydney_krantz