Chris Pfister makes his own paints and oils spending decades perfecting his medium working and re-working various oil mixtures in order to find the perfect consistency for each homemade pigment he uses. Starting with "Rolling Hills" to the River series, Pfister got intrigued by what happens to a landscape when you eliminate the horizon.

“About twenty years ago, I started making my own paint and messing around with different qualities of linseed oil that I hand washed and manipulated in various ways. Throughout my career, from the romantic paintings after Yale, I've been going down the rabbit hole of historic paint making methods; with this series l've come to a new, fuller relationship with the material. To simplify things, I decided to go with a grayscale, and from 2009-2018 I was painting mostly monochromes (these formed the core of my 2015 L.A. show at Jonathan Novak). After that, "Rolling Hills" was the foray back into color, "Lines" and "Nowhere Roads" being the culmination of the large monochrome landscapes. I love how they flip between abstract and representational, which invites the viewer to look at them super close, where they are literally landscapes of physical paint with their peaks and hollows, and from far away, where they become painted landscapes. The hand paintings are a sideline; when I lose focus on the big paintings, I spend a couple of days working on these small guys. Weirdly, they seem to compliment the landscapes.”

— Chris Pfister