Event Listing - Galleries, Arts & Crafts

Fri May 2 - Thu Jun 26

Chris Trueman

Recent Paintings


Tel. 510-465-8928
Email Chris Trueman
Website

Location
Date and Time
406 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94612 map
cross street: between Broadway & Franklin
district: Oakland (Downtown)


Fri May 2 (5:30-9:30) - Opening night may 2nd, the show is up until june 26
Thu Jun 26 (exhibit closes)

Description
Chris Trueman graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003 with dual Bachelor of Fine Art degrees in Painting and Digital Media. The current body of work addresses several common dualities observed in news, mass media and popular culture: wonderment and ambivalence of natural phenomena, interconnectedness and solitude in communications, fear and hope in technology, temporality and timelessness. These works are postulations that explore the complexity of relationships between subjective experience and that mediated by television and the Internet. Images from pop culture, history and science are interwoven with rich layers of paint, pencil, ink and thread. These hybrid artworks blend collage and painting to produce a symbiosis between machine and man-made.