After studying art at the American College of the Applied Arts in Atlanta, Georgia, Chris established a regimented work ethic of daily painting, concentrating on made up spaces as well as invented landscapes. Over the past few years, his paintings shifted from the mazes of apartment complexes and repeating surburban developments to focus on a new frontier: the human figure. As one of the founding members of the Austin Figurative Project, Chris has studied the human form and continued to make and break rules of painting in an effort to capture the essence of life that only the combination of turpentine and paint can achieve.
