Christina Rasmussen is an Austin-based painter whose work explores the threshold between the visible and invisible world. Working primarily in oils, she paints landscapes where something beneath the surface is always stirring, figures, frequencies, and forms emerging from light, ground, and field.

Her paintings begin in the recognizable world and move toward something harder to name. Layers of color build slowly, each one a threshold. What arrives in the final work is not planned but received, transmitted through the process itself. She paints what she cannot yet see until the canvas shows her.

Rasmussen returned to painting after a successful career as a writer, bringing with her decades of work in consciousness, grief, and the nature of human experience. That depth lives in every canvas. During her MFA in Painting and Drawing she was awarded Most Unique Body of Work by the Academy of Art University in 2025. She has exhibited in San Francisco and Austin, and maintains an active studio practice in the Texas Hill Country.

Her work invites viewers to look past the surface, past what the eye expects, into the living field beneath.