About the artwork:
This painting has a distinct two-layer composition, where the background gives color and the inset foreground selects and shapes the viewer’s experience of the work. A dynamic interplay unfolds from the relationships of the negative and positive of the background and foreground. Each cut-out, star-like negative uniquely reveals a color value, bouncing the viewer’s eye from each instance, while a strong diagonal movement also fights for their attention.
Christopher Dunlap’s magnetic images display precise geometric patterning and vibrant contrasting colors that both entrance the viewer and demand full visual engagement. The artist's compositions combine layers of oil paint, built up slowly and methodically, with visible brush strokes to create depth and vibration within the patterning itself. The resulting work leaves viewers feeling as if they are peering through a focused microscope, seeing only a small piece of a larger composition.
About the artist:
Christopher Dunlap’s magnetic images display precise geometric patterning and vibrant contrasting colors. The artist slowly and methodically builds up layers of oil paint and visible brush strokes to create depth and vibration within the patterning itself. Dunlap’s work gives viewers the impression of peering through a focused microscope—seeing only a special section of a much larger composition or totality.
BIO:
Christopher Dunlap was born in Pullman, Washington. The artist received a BFA from University of Washington in Seattle, Washington and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts.
Solo exhibitions of Dunlap’s work have taken place at: Sardine Gallery in Brooklyn, New York (2020 and 2017); and Hiromart Gallery in Tokyo, Japan (2019).
Group exhibitions that have included Dunlap’s work have taken place at: Marvin Gardens in Ridgewood, New York; Albada Jelgersma in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; McKenzie Fine Art in New York City; Transmitter in Brooklyn, New York; No Place Gallery in Columbus, Ohio; Site 131 in Dallas, Texas; and Spring Break Art Fair in New York City.
Dunlap has been reviewed in The New York Times, Two Coats of Paint, Hyperallergic, Art F City and Travel Magazine.
Dunlap lives and works in Harlem, New York.
Specs:
This painting has a distinct two-layer composition, where the background gives color and the inset foreground selects and shapes the viewer’s experience of the work. A dynamic interplay unfolds from the relationships of the negative and positive of the background and foreground.More
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