Chris Lux
Quintessentially postmodern, painter and sculptor Chris Lux has said that his works generate “a time where all bits of culture, from modern to prehistoric, wait at the same bus stop.” As a child Lux learned to mix paint from scratch and draw from the figure at the same that he tagged graffiti throughout the city of San Francisco. The latter informs his use of text, color, and scale while the former is most evident in his Bay Area figurative and funk aesthetics. Applying his distinctive style to topics and formats from the past–from Modernism back to pre-literary Italian frescoes– the artist has variously taken inspiration from Ingmar Bergman, Depeche Mode, Balthus, Sir Hans Sloan, Pope Pious VI, and Jacobus de Voragine. His 2014 Muddguts exhibition “Painting and Drawings,” uses narratives from American folklore as a vehicle to explore the history of painting from Les Nabis' Post-impressionistic use of color to contemporary Street Art. For example,
Bird Flu
(The Ghost Dance) (after Hieronymus Bosch)
(2014) translates the chaotic, all-encompassing composition of his predecessor into a cheerfully colored cartoon scene illustrating an end of times folk story where humans are wiped out by disease and the predation of birds.
Lux has had …
Quintessentially postmodern, painter and sculptor Chris Lux has said that his works generate “a time where all bits of culture, from modern to prehistoric, wait at the same bus stop.” As a child Lux learned to mix paint from scratch and draw from the figure at the same that he tagged graffiti throughout the city of San Francisco. The latter informs his use of text, color, and scale while the former is most evident in his Bay Area figurative and funk aesthetics. Applying his distinctive style to topics and formats from the past–from Modernism back to pre-literary Italian frescoes– the artist has variously taken inspiration from Ingmar Bergman, Depeche Mode, Balthus, Sir Hans Sloan, Pope Pious VI, and Jacobus de Voragine. His 2014 Muddguts exhibition “Painting and Drawings,” uses narratives from American folklore as a vehicle to explore the history of painting from Les Nabis' Post-impressionistic use of color to contemporary Street Art. For example,
Bird Flu
(The Ghost Dance) (after Hieronymus Bosch)
(2014) translates the chaotic, all-encompassing composition of his predecessor into a cheerfully colored cartoon scene illustrating an end of times folk story where humans are wiped out by disease and the predation of birds.
Lux has had solo exhibitions at Jancar Jones in San Francisco and Muddguts in NYC. His work has been included in group exhibitions at M.A.M.A. in Rotterdam, V1 in Copenhagen, and Ofr. in Paris among others.
