Kristopher Gee

Born in Los Angeles, CA in 1970. Raised in Vancouver, Canada. Now lives and works in Downtown Los Angeles.

"Imaginary Landscapes" is a new series of minimalistic paintings that stems from my life-long fascination with the cinema. As a self"avowed film geek, I have found many of the most profound and defining visual and aural moments of my life at the movies. These paintings begin with the cinematic experience as a jumping off point for my own imagination, but rather than being literal representations, they are distillations of color, shape and rhythm, evocations of virtual space. I treat this "virtual" cinematic space as a real, tangible environment from which I extract visual fragments to create new spaces for the mind to inhabit. The paintings may evoke a sense memory in the viewer, as though revisiting a place once dreamed and may provoke the question, Does a virtual memory operate in the same way as a "real" one or is there, in fact, any difference at all between the two?

Iconic colors from the movies can linger in the memory long after narrative details have vanished. The hellish red of HAL's womb-like memory center in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the strident primary colors from Disney's early C...

BFA from Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts.