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Tulip _ Study. 03
Pigment transfer on paper
Jeff Kraus’s mixed media pigment compositions deconstruct the still life, reimagining the tradition of flower arrangement through a contemporary lens. Beginning with a quiet ritual—photographing flowers on a windowsill at home—Kraus transforms these images through a process that straddles the physical and the digital. Collaging, printing, and layering, he manipulates his compositions with both digital tools and tactile interventions, allowing the flowers to exist in multiple states at once: vibrant yet fleeting, arranged yet deconstructed. The result is a body of work that explores the tension between permanence and impermanence, presence and decay. By pushing the boundaries between natural and artificial, Kraus suspends moments in time, holding beauty at the precipice of its inevitable dissolution.
In Kraus's words:
Beginning with a quiet ritual of photographing flowers on the windowsill at home, these images become meditations on time, memory, and impermanence. Using both digital tools and physical interventions, I manipulate and layer the photos to create compositions that blur the boundary between the natural and the artificial. The flowers—vibrant yet fleeting—are collaged, printed, and pressed onto the paper, forming layered surfaces that evoke both presence and decay. Each piece exists at the intersection of nature and technology, capturing the tension between permanence and ephemerality. Through this process, I explore the instability of place—how beauty lingers even as it fades, suspending a moment in time even as it dissolves.
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Jeff Kraus’s mixed media pigment compositions deconstruct the still life, reimagining the tradition of flower arrangement through a contemporary lens. Beginning with a quiet ritual—photographing flowers on a windowsill at home—Kraus transforms these images through a process that straddles the physical and the digital. Collaging, printing, and layering, he manipulates his compositions with both digital tools and tactile interventions, allowing the flowers to exist in multiple states at once: vibrant yet fleeting, arranged yet deconstructed. The result is a body of work that explores the tension between permanence and impermanence, presence and decay. By pushing the boundaries between natural and artificial, Kraus suspends moments in time, holding beauty at the precipice of its inevitable dissolution.
In Kraus's words:
Beginning with a quiet ritual of photographing flowers on the windowsill at home, these images become meditations on time, memory, and impermanence. Using both digital tools and physical interventions, I manipulate and layer the photos to create compositions that blur the boundary between the natural and the artificial. The flowers—vibrant yet fleeting—are collaged, printed, and pressed onto the paper, forming layered surfaces that evoke both presence and decay. Each piece exists at the intersection of nature and technology, capturing the tension between permanence and ephemerality. Through this process, I explore the instability of place—how beauty lingers even as it fades, suspending a moment in time even as it dissolves.
Artwork Information
Year
2025
Materials
Pigment transfer on paper
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The work comes with a Certification of Authenticity signed by the Co-Founder of Tappan
Dimensions
22 x 30 inches
FRAMED DIMENSIONS
22 x 30 inches
Floated: 26 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 2 inches
Unframed: 22 x 30 inches
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“Mistakes often become the final piece. I like to be surprised in the studio. Old works inform new works, along with failed attempts and piles of trashed material.”

About the Artist
Jeff Kraus
Multi-disciplinary artist Jeff Kraus's practice include painting, digital video, sculpture and NFTs. Kraus has been featured in Architectural Digest, The Wall Street Journal and Emergent Magazine and has exhibited across the us, including at Pace Gallery (New York). His work of considers particular locations that were critical to the process of making the work.

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Jeff Kraus’s mixed media pigment compositions deconstruct the still life, reimagining the tradition of flower arrangement through a contemporary lens. Beginning with a quiet ritual—photographing flowers on a windowsill at home—Kraus transforms these images through a process that straddles the physical and the digital. Collaging, printing, and layering, he manipulates his compositions with both digital tools and tactile interventions, allowing the flowers to exist in multiple states at once: vibrant yet fleeting, arranged yet deconstructed. The result is a body of work that explores the tension between permanence and impermanence, presence and decay. By pushing the boundaries between natural and artificial, Kraus suspends moments in time, holding beauty at the precipice of its inevitable dissolution.
In Kraus's words:
Beginning with a quiet ritual of photographing flowers on the windowsill at home, these images become meditations on time, memory, and impermanence. Using both digital tools and physical interventions, I manipulate and layer the photos to create compositions that blur the boundary between the natural and the artificial. The flowers—vibrant yet fleeting—are collaged, printed, and pressed onto the paper, forming layered surfaces that evoke both presence and decay. Each piece exists at the intersection of nature and technology, capturing the tension between permanence and ephemerality. Through this process, I explore the instability of place—how beauty lingers even as it fades, suspending a moment in time even as it dissolves.