Chris Hood
Region: Northeast
City / State: new york, NY
Though representational in approach, my paintings, sculptures,
and drawings reflect an understanding of abstraction, with
personal and social imagery colliding with the twenty-first
century. Combining traditional techniques with the languages of
digital territories, my work often features images culled from the
American counterculture, art history, and mass media rendered
abstract by translation.
My interest in drawing parallels another in psychophysics. The
paintings are cast in a liminal space where a unique reverse
stain technique rests compositions in ambiguous and perceptual
tension. Likening them to faded advertisements or T-shirts
turned inside out, I invest the evocative physicality of my paintings
with themes of identity, memory, and loss. The works hint at
challenges to the idea of static perspective while pointing to
larger questions concerning the role of images and contemporary
painting.