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Yellow Page Art by CHRIS VANCE
Chris Vance strives to push his painting to the next level through chance mark making and dedication. He sees his paintings as random chaotic windows: some dark, some light, and some unknown. The unknown for Chris is his next painting, his next chance to push himself and discover something new within himself and his work.
Each painting is unique, like a visual journal entry marking the artist's place and time. It is the expression of daily events that form ideas and transform the canvases. This is evident in the arrangement of cheeky and light compositions next to solemn brooding non-objective pieces. When these individual compositions are arranged they form a grid, modern and architectural, unifying the otherwise distinctly different art pieces.
These paintings are acrylic on canvas and paper. It is a process Chris Vance calls "yellow page art." Though they are acrylic, they are easily mistaken for oil paintings due to their luminous glow and many transparent layers of visual information. Vance doesn't attempt to resolve each piece before the paint hits the canvas; instead, he waits for the canvas to tell him what it needs in the form of line and color. He looks at composition and balance, and then, lets his mood drive the piece on a subconscious level.
For Chris Vance ideas are an internal ingestion and the art is the medium of expression. Understanding his work is to understand him as a person. The evolution of each painting shows how small ideas are the spark to ignite big ideas in the progression of his work. |
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