Chris Trueman
Cover for Issue 340
Los Angeles
Issue 340 September 1, 2009
Chris Trueman is an artist who lives and works in the Los Angeles area. Chris’ paintings explore the idea of identity as the management of multiple micro identities. He creates dynamic paintings that are constructed by fusing essentialized and abbreviated styles, sourced from contemporary and modern painting history that includes abstract expressionism, hardedge abstraction, architectural abstraction and pop art. These paintings are built by piling components, and the interactions that elements have between each other are at times adversarial, whimsical, dynamic, and harmonious. The result is a painting that is both a single object and a composite of multiple paintings — a Frankenstein of pop-abstract-geometric expressionism.

His work can be seen in an upcoming exhibition entitled Surface Strata, a show he helped to organize at Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland, CA. The opening reception will be September 4th, 2009 from 5:30-9:00pm and will run through the end of October.

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