Chris Peters
Chris Peters lives and paints in Los Angeles, California. The artist was raised on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He trained for three years at the Gage Academy of Art, completing their Drawing/Painting certificate program that emphasizes classical painting techniques. Mr. Peters work has been exhibited in numerous galleries devoted the Los Angeles Pop Surrealism / Lowbrow Art movement, including Copro/Nason Gallery in Santa Monica and as a featured artist for Cannibal Flower. Mr. Peters holds both a Bachelors and Masters degree from the University of Washington.
Further information is available at www.chrispeters.com.
Artist's Statement
The Germans have a word "unheimlich" that is difficult to translate into English, although a blur between the words "uncanny" and "eerie" perhaps comes the closest to providing a definition.
In each of my paintings, I am trying to find the beauty in that uneasy twilight place between life and death, between reality and unreality, between self and what writer H.P. Lovecraft called "the others" .
The objects in my paintings draw from the classic symbolism of Vanitas still life and Catholic religious paintings; all refer to the cycle of life, death and the promise of resurrection.
The Germans have a word "unheimlich" that is difficult to translate into English, although a blur between the words "uncanny" and "eerie" perhaps comes the closest to providing a definition.
In each of my paintings, I am trying to find the beauty in that uneasy twilight place between life and death, between reality and unreality, between self and what writer H.P. Lovecraft called "the others" .
The objects in my paintings draw from the classic symbolism of Vanitas still life and Catholic religious paintings; all refer to the cycle of life, death and the promise of resurrection.