Casper Brindle

Born in 1968, in Toronto, Canada, Casper Brindle is renowned for his profound focus on optical effects and the austerity of its formal language. His work explores the expressive possibilities of colour, light, and form.

Brindle started painting as a teen, deeply influenced by his upbringing on the beaches of Southern California, where he moved with his family at the age of six. His experiences surfing along the Los Angeles coastline and his formative years as an apprentice to pioneering Light and Space artist Eric Orr in his early twenties have profoundly shaped his practice.

As a second-generation Light and Space artist, Brindle's work features minimalist compositions enhanced by luminous, disembodied colors and machine-tooled surfaces. By intentionally incising horizontal lines across his panels the artist interrupts, and even disrupts, the originally pristine and pure expanses of color with edge-to-edge horizon lines, creating a dual sense of recession with mirrored upper and lower segments. Whether functioning as structural devices or guiding visual language, the notion of 'center' remains a constant theme throughout Brindle's works. These central, thicker, and shorter vertical elements emerge from the surface in a sculptural manner, while their radiance allows them to stand independently within visual perception. Thus, this striking contrast reaffirms the materiality of Brindle's creative method, presenting the vertical and horizontal elements in his work through a dualistic narrative framework.

Casper Brindle's work has been widely recognised and exhibited across the United States and internationally. His work is held in a number of prominent private and museum collections including the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation and the Morningside College Collection in Sioux City, IA.