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CHRIS STOTT: NEW PAINTINGS
February 26 - April 2, 2022
Reception Saturday, February 26, 3-6pm

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 Artist Statement

I approach my work with a naturalistic styling and a strong sense of minimalism and order.
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I paint a wide variety of vintage and antique objects including typewriters, books, clocks, bubble gum machines and telephones among other common technology and appliances. As subjects, they have built-in narrative, they tell stories. And transforming them to painting creates an intimate, slower viewing experience. My hope is that in the paintings a viewer can find big picture ideas and even personal histories and stories.

The straight forward compositions break the objects down to simple shapes and designs. My painting technique, adding multiple layers of paint and minute but still painterly detail, creates a near-photorealist aesthetic. I choose to paint the objects because, put simply, painting is transformative.

Biography

Born in 1976, Christopher Stott began a prolific and dedicated studio painting career in 2003 after graduating from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, with High Honors and a Distinguished Exhibition. Stott’s work has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in commercial and public galleries. He works from his in-home studio on Vancouver Island with his wife and two children.
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Press Release 2022
Press Release 2020
Press Release 2018
Press Release 2016
Press Release 2015
PRESS COVERAGE

Realism Today / Fall 2020
Aesthetica Art Prize 2020
The Southampton Review / Fall 2019
​American Art Collector / October 2017
American Art Collector / September 2015

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