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  Rebeqa Rivers

  James "Shoes"

  Walker

Chris White:

Medium:   Painting, Oil
Member since:   2008
Artist Statement

Images:

 

Title:  Tie-dye
Dimensions:  36 x 45 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas
Price: $

Title:  Grandma & Grandpa
Dimensions:  30 x 24 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas
Price: $

 

 Title:  Barbara & Armoire
Dimensions:  30 x 36 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas
Price: $

Title:  King
Dimensions:  36 x 45 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas
Price: $

 

Title:  Mom in Garden
Dimensions:  30 x 36 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas
Price: $

Title:  Barbara
Dimensions:  30 x 25 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas
Price: $

 

    

Title:  Two Bens
Dimensions:  24 x 36 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas
Price: $

 

 

 

 
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

** Additional Works Available, please contact the gallery

 

 

Artist Statement:

 

Realism

but whose reality, and how real is it?

 

In this recent body of paintings the images get their start in the pages of my photo albums, from recent photos of my family, to snapshots from my youth. These photographic fragments of my life, through my process and imagination, have turned into a collection of paintings that tell a story of an alternative reality. These paintings are highly personal to me, though my hope is to depict a human story that is universal.

 

To express complex narratives through paint can be very frustrating, especially when we are inundated with books, films and songs that do it so vividly.  As a young painter living in a time of MTV and Steven Spielberg, this frustrated me to the point of giving it up.  After many years I have returned to painting and it’s now more alive and exciting for me than it ever was. I now believe that there are some things that can be communicated most powerfully through paint. Like a faint smell can trigger intense memory - vague in specifics but enormously powerful in feeling and emotion. It is like this that we communicate through paint.

 

 

 

Biography:

 

Education


 1996   MFA, University of Pennsylvania

1994   BFA, University of Minnesota
 

Selected Exhibitions

 

2009

Realism -but whose reality, and how real is it?, Solo Exhibition, La Familia Gallery; Seattle, WA

Expressions West 2009, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR – Juror: Richard V. West

41st Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton, TX (National Juried Exhibition)

Mythography, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (International Juried Exhibition)

 

1997

Pennart - Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, New York, NY - Curator: Patrick Murphy
11 PM - Meyerson Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA - Curator: Patrick Murphy
East/West Vision In Between - Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA - Jurors: Lily Yeh, Natvar Bhavsar
MFA Thesis Exhibition - Meyerson Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
 

 

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