NEW YORK, NY.- The gallery is presenting its second solo exhibition with Brooklyn-based artist Christopher Saunders. The exhibition includes abstract works on paper made with acrylic and ink that feature repeated horizontal lines punctuated by washes of color and erasures. Abstract compositions suggest visions of landscape and stacked horizons.
Between the years 2020 and 2021, Saunders worked almost exclusively on paper. Affixing the paper to the surface of a table, and painting it flat, Saunders created rectangular compositions intuitively, drawing from photographic reference points in his mind's eye. References to visions of sunlit sky, ocean, and cloud formations join more conceptual thoughts suggested by repeated horizontal bands of the color black painted in different widths and densities. Other points of reference include sheet music, lines of text perhaps crossed-out, feedback and signals, as well as repetition and minimalism which are important ongoing concepts in the artist's works. Saunders uses tapes attached edge to edge across the surface of the paper as stencils between which he brushes on straight lines with acrylic paint eventually interspersed with diluted ink in different colors. He also uses tape to remove areas of the painted surface, exposing areas of paper that create the dispersive effect of an ocean wave upon breaking, static, or the more formal idea of a blot or stain of color.
Christopher Saunders was born in Franklin, Virginia in 1972, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received an MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, in 1997 and a BFA in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA in 1995. His works have been exhibited at Kristen Lorello, NY, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, and Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York, as well as Geary Contemporary, Millerton, New York, Bicycle Fine Art, New York, NY, Teckningsmuseet, Laholm, Sweden, and Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY. The artists' works are included in the collection of the James Hotel, New York, NY, and Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, among others.
