Waves of a previous, no doubt energetic exchange between two men ripple across the surfaces of Christopher Hartmann’s works. Hartmann is an artist who transforms the abstract into the figurative, who turns a meditation on a fixed, objective moment into an extended consideration of an unfurling, subjective space. He is a painter who makes you as viewer, and his object as subject, feel at home even when the figure has come and gone, sounding silence; billowing stillness far, far away.