Balancing the controllable and uncontrollable, Chrissy Angliker’s paintings are translations of the artist’s perception of herself in relation to the world. The artist has a hybrid background in both painting and design and her process involves reacting to the medium of paint by influencing rather than manipulating it. The ridges, crevices and peaks created by Angliker’s brushstrokes place her paintings somewhere between two modalities—strikingly painterly and figurative, while also definitively sculptural and impressionistic.

BIO:

Chrissy Angliker was born in Zurich, Switzerland. The artist trained as a young student under the mentorship of Russian artist Juri Borodatchev. Angliker later received a degree in Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute in New York City in 2006. As a post-graduate, the artist worked in the design industry before shifting back to painting in 2008.

Angliker’s work has been exhibited extensively in both Europe and the United States.

Angliker’s work has been featured in several international print and online publications, including Forbes.com, The Know Culture, The Last Magazine, Bolero Magazine, and Hyperallergic. 

In 2016, Neidhard & Schoen AG published an in-depth book, Chrissy Angliker PAINT/ING/S, examining Angliker’s process and resulting paintings with a focus on her work created between 2014 and 2016. 

Among other international accolades and nominations, Angliker has been awarded the Rowena Reed Kostellow Award from Pratt Institute in New York City and the International Takifuji Art Award in Tokyo, Japan. The artist has had site- and project-specific work commissioned by AOL America Online, Burton Snowboards and Wired Magazine, among others.

Angliker lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.