Sheridan, Chris

Images:

 

Title:  Amalgamation
Dimensions:  24 x 12 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas

Title: Begrudgingly Compliant
Dimensions:   30 x 18 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas

 

Title:  Ein Schlaues Ruse
Dimensions:   36 x 14 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas 

Title: Thus Are Our Souls Constructed
Dimensions:  8.5 x 32 inches
Medium:  Oil on maple skateboard deck

 

Title: Round About Dusk
Dimensions:  8.5 x 32 inches
Medium:  Oil on maple skateboard deck

Title:  Persistence of Vision, a Parable
Dimensions:  48 x 12 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas

 

Title:  Vindictive Wish, a Curse in Disguise
Dimensions:  36 x 10 inches
Medium:  Oil on canvas

Title:  Still
Dimensions:  32 x 8.5 inches
Medium:  Oil on maple skateboard deck

** Additional Works Available, please contact the gallery

 

 

Artist Statement:

 

Amalgamation:

    A concoction of visual allegories inspired  by Aesop’s Fables, Grimm’s Fairytales, and mythology.

 

I am an incessant reader, forever searching out the connections between the histories and the people that I surround myself with. Recently introduced to the archetypes, I’ve found a bastion of inspiration in the likes of Aesop, the Brother’s Grimm and Homer. This idea of drawing connections from the past to my peers has appeared and reappeared arbitrarily throughout my painting career, but only recently have I dedicated an entire body of work to it. It’s sometimes macabre and mysterious, at other times light hearted or satirical, and my use of mark making and color acts as a binder for this allegorical and rather fluid collection of paintings.

 

Biography:

 

Education

 

2001-2003  Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1995-1999  Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
1996  Apprenticeship in sign and street painting from Dowler Graphics, Cape Cod, MA


Selected Exhibitions

 

2009 Amalgamation, La Familia, Seattle, WA

2009 Gems presents: Chris Sheridan, Gems, Seattle, WA

2009 Color Theory # 1, Color Theory Collective, Fremont, WA

2008  Group Exhibition, Canvas Gallery;  Seattle, WA
2008  One way of looking at it, a preview show at La Familia Gallery;  Seattle, WA
2007  Tasting Room, Angle Gallery;  Seattle, WA

2007  Collective Works, ArtEast, Up Front Gallery;  Issaquah, WA
2007  Group Exhibition, Ace Studios gallery;  Seattle, WA
2007  The Round, Freemont Abbey Arts Center;  Seattle, WA
2007  Artifakt, The F-Stop;  Seattle, WA
2007  Through the Looking Glass, ArtReach;  Seattle, WA
2006 Consider This, See Sound Lounge, Seattle, WA

2006 Way Back When, Ace Studios Gallery, Seattle, WA

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