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Christopher Pendleton obtained his BFA and graduated Summa Cum Laude from UNM. Christopher predominantly paints on transparent acrylic plexiglass panels and mostly works with aerosol paint, but adds a wide variety of media as he sees fi t. Pendleton has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New Mexico. He is an emerging artist whose works display painting for what it truly is: phenomenological abstraction. His works are included in a number of private collections throughout the nation. Christopher Pendleton currently lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Thanks to Christopher Pendleton Value: $2,900Artist Statement

Artist's Statement

I am an abstract artist, creating works on Plexiglass panels. The technique I use is referred to as Verre Glomis / Reverse Glass painting. My work has no references to relative scale and the results appear macroscopic or microscopic as the viewer is likely to recognize a condensed world of amoeba-like forms jockeying for position or, conversely, a meteoric streak across a cosmic void lit by literally thousands of points of light.

Although, at first, my work may seem spontaneous and gestural, both the surface preparation and the process I have devised are quite involved; consequently, I see my role in my own paintings as both that of active participant and passive observer. For instance, I prefer to react to what is unfolding in 'real time' and I have always recognized this impulse as very much related to the play of childhood, as well as to the kind of conceptual freedom seen in the mature work of Jackson Pollack where certain initial decisions are made re: color and scale and speed, for instance, but in which forces of gravity, inertia, and splatter, among others, assert themselves.

This interplay between results which are directed and those which are intuitive and accidental is what I am after. I see it as an expression of the way in which we live our lives as we plan/initiate and then find ourselves surprised or even marginalized by results we could not have anticipated.

Of course, we live more than ever in an age of Synthesis, a Synthesis which never fails to inspire. Very much influenced by graffiti's use of pre-mixed sprayed on paint and unconventional, large scale surfaces and the great immediacy of its execution. Ideas continuously evolve, my work is Always In PROGRESS, THIS IS WHERE IT IS AT!!!!!

Biography

Christopher Pendleton was born in Berrien Springs, Michigan, on May 20th, 1982. In 2010, Pendleton obtained his BFA and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of New Mexico. Pendleton predominantly paints on transparent acrylic plexiglass panels and mostly works with aerosol paint, but adds a wide variety of mediums as he sees fit. Pendleton has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New Mexico. He is an emerging artist, whose works display painting for what it truly is: phenomenological abstraction. His works are included in a number of private collection throughout the nation. Christopher Pendleton currently lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Curriculum Vitae

Christopher Pendleton

Currently lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico

cnapaint@gmail.com | www.pendletoncreations.com

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Summa Cum Laude), 2010, Painting and Drawing, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Solo Exhibitions

• 2015 - Works After Progress, Gallerie 520, Santa Fe, NM (May 1-May 25)
• 2014 - Deja Rothko: Reflections & Re-imaginations, Boro Gallery, Corrales, NM
• 2010 - A Compendium of the Esoteric, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
• 2009 - Ephemeral Revisited, Zea Bar and Grill, Albuquerque, NM

Group Exhibitions

• 2015- The Bomb, The South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM (January 15-Febuary 28)
• 2014 - The Turquoise Show, Gallerie 520, Santa Fe, NM
• 2014 - Your On T.V. Presents, Factory 5G Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
• 2013 - Ground Effect, Kimo Gallerie, Albuquerque, NM
• 2012 - On Display, Desert Fish, Albuquerque, NM
• 2011 - Sixteenth Square, Factory 5G Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
• 2010 - Nature & Technology, John Sommers Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
• 2010 - Calling All Artists, Factory 5G Gallery, Albuqueruqe, NM

Collections

• Private collection, Denver, CO
• Private collection, Loveland, CO
• Private collection, Jacksonville, FL
• Private collection, Camden, ME
• Private collection, Muskegon, MI
• Private collection, Albuquerque, NM (9 different collections)
• Private collection, Las Cruces, NM (4 different collections)
• Private collection, Roswell, NM
• Private collection, Santa Fe, NM (3 different collections)
• Private collection, Columbus, OH
• Private collection, Dallas, TX
• Private collection, London, UK

Representation

• Kasum Contemporary Fine Art, 1706 NW 16th Street, Oklahoma City, OK
• Gallerie 520, 520 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM
• Mark Gallery, Tenafly, NJ and East Hampton, NY
• Xanadu Gallery, 7039 E. Main St. #101, Scottsdale, AZ

Item Special Note

Unframed.

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