Description

Floating Spirits Two — Original Abstract Painting

39½” × 27½” × 1¾”

About the Artwork & Waterfront Series

Floating Spirits Two is an original abstract painting by Gregory Christeas and the second of three works inspired by a motorcycle journey through South Dakota’s Badlands with his son.

While traveling through the ancient landscape, Christeas watched the sand drift beneath an expansive sky. Within that endless blue, he began imagining soft yellow forms rising and floating across the land.

Passages of blue, violet, white, and gold move vertically across the canvas, evoking wind, drifting sand, and mysterious figures suspended in light. The experience became more than a passing moment—it developed into an emotional conversation with the Badlands and a feeling of being briefly welcomed into its deep, patient spirit. Floating Spirits Two was later featured in Gregory Christeas’ Art and Freedom exhibition at the Cultural Olympiad Athens 2004.

This original canvas preserves a personal moment shared between father and son, transforming the physical landscape of the Badlands into color, movement, memory, and spirit.

Gregory Christeas creates infinite abstract forms that transform like a wandering spirit in search of the realization of beauty. The Waterfront Series was developed over decades of exploring Abstract Expressionism, capturing light, water, architecture, and movement into layered compositions.

The Waterfront technique became the birthplace of the Parallels Series. Many works in this collection, including Floating Spirits Two, were featured in landmark international exhibitions, giving them significant and verifiable provenance.

By applying industrial pigments in multiple layers, Christeas creates bright fields where color and texture become structural, tangible elements. His paintings reveal radiant layers that balance chaos and serenity, transforming raw emotion into visual poetry.