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Chris Watts

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    About the Artist
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    About the Artist

    Chris Watts is an abstract painter and mixed-media artist whose work seeks to revise, interrogate, and re-examine social and personal narratives through the transfiguration of painting, drawing, video, and installations. This re-examination also seeks to create a project of disruption. Currently, these projects exist as representations of windows as switches into another, layered, assemblage of spaces where the distinction between what is real and what is represented is thoroughly confused.

     

    Watts was born in High Point, North Carolina. He attended the MFA program at Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, after graduating from the College of Arts and Architecture, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Wroclaw, PL. Watts has held various artist residencies, among them the Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation, Chelm, PL; McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC; the Art & Law Fellowship Program, at Cornell University Art Architecture Planning, New York, NY; the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, New York, NY; and, the 2022-2023 Soros Justice Fellowship Program. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He is a featured artist in the documentary film, The Art of Making It, directed by Kelcey Edwards, and from the Emmy-nominated producer Debi Wisch (The Price of Everything). The film will have its world premiere at the 2021 Hamptons International Film Festival. Watts shares his time between New York and North Carolina.

  • Works
    • Chris Watts The spirits that lend strength are invisible XXXI, 2023 Peruvian pigments, resin, poly-chiffon, stained wood 59 x 47 inches 149.9 x 119.4 cms
      Chris Watts
      The spirits that lend strength are invisible XXXI, 2023
      Peruvian pigments, resin, poly-chiffon, stained wood
      59 x 47 inches
      149.9 x 119.4 cms
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    • Chris Watts The spirits that lend strength are invisible XXXIII, 2023 Peruvian pigments, resin, poly-chiffon, stained wood 59 x 47 inches 149.9 x 119.4 cms
      Chris Watts
      The spirits that lend strength are invisible XXXIII, 2023
      Peruvian pigments, resin, poly-chiffon, stained wood
      59 x 47 inches
      149.9 x 119.4 cms
      Enquire
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    • Chris Watts The spirits that lend strength are invisible IX (Great Spirit), 2022 Pigment, resin, polyester 76 x 64 inches 193 x 162.6 cms
      Chris Watts
      The spirits that lend strength are invisible IX (Great Spirit), 2022
      Pigment, resin, polyester
      76 x 64 inches
      193 x 162.6 cms
    • Chris Watts The spirits that lend strength are invisible X (Nyan), 2022 Pigment, resin, polyester 76 x 64 inches 193 x 162.6 cms
      Chris Watts
      The spirits that lend strength are invisible X (Nyan), 2022
      Pigment, resin, polyester
      76 x 64 inches
      193 x 162.6 cms
    • Chris Watts The spirits that lend strength are invisible XI, 2022 Pigment, resin, polyester 72 x 64 inches 182.9 x 162.6 cms
      Chris Watts
      The spirits that lend strength are invisible XI, 2022
      Pigment, resin, polyester
      72 x 64 inches
      182.9 x 162.6 cms
    • Chris Watts The spirits that lend strength are invisible XII (Seated Shaman), 2022 Pigment, resin, silk 64 x 44 inches 162.6 x 111.8 cms
      Chris Watts
      The spirits that lend strength are invisible XII (Seated Shaman), 2022
      Pigment, resin, silk
      64 x 44 inches
      162.6 x 111.8 cms
    • Chris Watts The spirits that lend strength are invisible XIII, 2022 Pigment, resin, found wood, black silk 60 x 44 inches 152.4 x 111.8 cms
      Chris Watts
      The spirits that lend strength are invisible XIII, 2022
      Pigment, resin, found wood, black silk
      60 x 44 inches
      152.4 x 111.8 cms
    • Chris Watts The spirits that lend strength are invisible XIV, 2023 Pigments, poly-chiffon, resin, acrylic, stained wood 64 x 44 inches 162.6 x 111.8 cms
      Chris Watts
      The spirits that lend strength are invisible XIV, 2023
      Pigments, poly-chiffon, resin, acrylic, stained wood
      64 x 44 inches
      162.6 x 111.8 cms
    • Chris Watts The spirits that lend strength are invisible XIX, 2023 Pigments, resin, acrylic, poly-chiffon, stained wood 76 x 44 inches 193 x 111.8 cms
      Chris Watts
      The spirits that lend strength are invisible XIX, 2023
      Pigments, resin, acrylic, poly-chiffon, stained wood
      76 x 44 inches
      193 x 111.8 cms
    • Chris Watts The spirits that lend strength are invisible XV (Wachuma in Huayoccari), 2023 Pigments, resin, acrylic, poly-chiffon, stained wood 64 x 44 inches 162.6 x 111.8 cms
      Chris Watts
      The spirits that lend strength are invisible XV (Wachuma in Huayoccari), 2023
      Pigments, resin, acrylic, poly-chiffon, stained wood
      64 x 44 inches
      162.6 x 111.8 cms
    • Chris Watts The spirits that lend strength are invisible XXX, 2023 Peruvian pigments, resin, silk, stained wood 32 x 32 inches 81.3 x 81.3 cms
      Chris Watts
      The spirits that lend strength are invisible XXX, 2023
      Peruvian pigments, resin, silk, stained wood
      32 x 32 inches
      81.3 x 81.3 cms
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  • Exhibitions

    • BEHOLD , Oasa DuVerney, Sana Musasama, Komikka Patton, Roberto Visani, Chris Watts
      Exhibitions

      BEHOLD

      Oasa DuVerney, Sana Musasama, Komikka Patton, Roberto Visani, Chris Watts 2 October 2021 - 31 January 2022
    • Open Doors at Galerie Lelong and Co., New York, Carl E. Hazlewood, Helen Evans Ramsaran, Chris Watts
      Exhibitions

      Open Doors at Galerie Lelong and Co., New York

      Carl E. Hazlewood, Helen Evans Ramsaran, Chris Watts 30 June - 5 August 2022
  • Artist Talk featuring Chris Watts

    "Behold"
    In an Artist Talk moderated by Daonne Huff, the exhibiting artists of the group exhibition, Behold, discuss the works on...
    In an Artist Talk moderated by Daonne Huff, the exhibiting artists of the group exhibition, Behold, discuss the works on view and answer questions. The exhibiting artists were Chris Watts, Oasa DuVerney, Sana Musasama, Roberto Visani, Daonne Huff, and Komika Patton. Click here to read more about the exhibition.
    Click here for Artist Talk
  • Press

    • The Coexistence of Beauty and Evocations of Race and Power
      Press

      The Coexistence of Beauty and Evocations of Race and Power

      November 14, 2021
      “Behold” here, in this exhibition, is an invitation to see the intertwining of aesthetic concerns and the rigors of political and historical exploration. I was talking the other day to...
  • Fairs

    • Frieze Los Angeles 2023 February 16-19 , Santa Monica Airport Booth E04
      Events

      Frieze Los Angeles 2023 February 16-19

      Santa Monica Airport Booth E04 16 - 19 February 2023
      Welancora Gallery is proud to present Seen and Unseen, an intergenerational pairing of new paintings by Chris Watts (b. 1984) and bronze sculpture created by Helen Evans Ramsaran (b.1943), at...

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