Self-Portrait
acrylic, chalk, charcoal, gouache, and pencil on canvas
Crystal Hartman, 2021
Turf
acrylic, chalk, charcoal, gouache, and pencil on canvas
Crystal Hartman, 2022
Fern
acrylic, chalk, charcoal, gouache, and pencil on canvas
Crystal Hartman, 2022
Pictured Above: Installation Shot from On a Sheet of Ice, a Flower at Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago 2023.
Shadow of the Grasses
botanical pigments, chalk, charcoal, gouache, pencil on raw canvas, 2023
The Leap (also pictured on left)
acrylic, botanical pigments, chalk, charcoal, gouache, pencil on raw canvas, 2023
The Flower
acrylic, botanical pigments, chalk, charcoal, gouache, pencil on raw canvas, 2023
Details from Sea Change
infographic based painting installation, acrylic, botanical pigments, chalk, charcoal, gouache, pencil on raw canvas
Pictured Above: Installation Shot from On a Sheet of Ice, a Flower at Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago
The Oak and The Ice
acrylic, botanical pigments, chalk, charcoal, gouache, pencil on raw canvas, 2023
On Right Detail from The Oak and The Ice in afternoon light.
Shadows
I am collecting stories from the ends of the shadows. The late night shadows that form through the blinds and streetlights when we cannot sleep, the midday shadows we find when we lay beneath the trees, the lack of shadows on a parched landscape, the shadows of the chairs our loved ones once loved. These collections, traced and rendered at full scale take on a life of their own at the edges, in the spaces between.
Meeting the abstract with a formalism guided by an appreciation for nature, figure (botanical, entomological, and mammalian), ritual, and the act of gathering rooted in shared evolutionary histories, I am working predominately in sustainably chalk, pencil, charcoal, gouache, and acrylic on canvas and paper in practice of layering, addressing the spaces we cannot quite define.