Krystal Newmark is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BFA in Painting at the California College of the Arts in 2007.

Her work navigates the tension between safety, memory, and place. Burning houses and melting glaciers evoke the looming threat of ecological collapse, while cars appear trapped or sinking. Cars, often symbols of freedom, are portrayed without mirrors—evoking a sense of claustrophobia, danger, and entrapment. Nature is idyllically rendered in rolling hills, flowers, forests, and soft clouds—a vision of freedom, and a world worth preserving.

Having briefly lived in a car as a child, Krystal incorporates a personal history of both refuge and confinement. In her paintings, the illusion of safety unravels, revealing how fragile and impermanent “home” can be. She reimagines inhabitance through the lens of environmental displacement and emotional longing—haunted by loss and nostalgia, yet driven by the quiet desire to escape.