Abstract portraiture: embracing the future of art.
I sell one-of-a-kind original and limted edtion artworks.
A wood float-frame included in the price for each one-of-a-kind artwork
My Limited-Edition art is mounted on a white wood, flush mount
All artworks are ready to hang
I use the dye sublimation process for printing my artwork.
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Ken Crost's Abstract Portrait Gallery
My artwork is rooted in abstract portraiture. Across each series, I use digital processes to examine the shifting nature of identity and the ways a face can carry memory, tension, and inner life. The work moves between representation and abstraction, treating the portrait as a site of inquiry rather than a fixed likeness
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One-of-a-Kind Artworks
Daughters of the Dream Series
After Image Series
The artworks in this series stand as a symbolic presence, blending abstraction and form to explore the shifting boundaries of identity and the echoes we inherit.
These artworks began with vintage museum portraits and I transformed them through abstraction, revealing how the past can be reshaped into new expressions of presence and identity.
Beauty and Chaos Series
This series explores the tension between order and disruption, using abstract portraiture to show how beauty emerges from fractured forms and controlled chaos.
The Unbroken Gaze Series
Each artwork in this series treats the female gaze as structural power, showing how the subject can command, challenge, and redefine the space of the portrait
The Unforgotten Series
These portraits are built from memory rather than likeness. Each figure emerges from color and atmosphere, carrying the quiet force of someone who has stayed with you long after the moment has passed. They are not ghosts or symbols—just the unforgotten, rendered in the space between presence and recall.
The Triplets of Bincombe Series
Three portraits, each carrying a different current of quiet intensity. Winifred, Arabella, and Hilda form a triad of presence — variations on a single, hauntingly human chord.
Blue Noir Series
Each artwork in this series draws on the emotional language of 1940s–50s film noir, using abstract portraiture and short narrative scenes to evoke mystery, tension, and interior conflict
Hidden Faces Series
Each portrait in this series treats the face as a constructed form, using abstraction to test how far it can be altered while still holding presence.
Dream Faces Series
This series builds its dreamlike atmosphere through softened contours, quiet color shifts, and refined abstraction that lets the face hover between clarity and haze
Limited Editions
The Shape of Memory
This series examines the shape of memory, portraying faces enclosed by borders that echo the limits and pressures of the past.
Emergence
This series depicts faces rising out of color, not all at once, but gradually, as if remembering themselves. Each portrait gathers light, texture, and breath until a presence appears. The white border holds the moment still, giving every face a quiet space to emerge.