Jim Krantz lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He works across painting, graphic arts, and photography, approaching the photograph not as a fixed record but as a point of departure. Through abstraction, light, and gesture, Krantz explores perception, memory, and transformation, creating images that move beyond description toward experience. While some projects draw from the American West, his work extends beyond place, resisting fixed narratives and favoring imagery that remains physical, open, and unresolved. Across more than four decades, Krantz has developed a body of work defined by sustained inquiry and material engagement, where images are constructed, disrupted, and reconsidered as part of an ongoing process.