Chris Vierra – chrisvierraart.com

Color Compositions

Work based on colors from memories, places, or situations, designed with balance and geometry.

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Melting Pot

30″ x 30″ oil on canvas, 2024

Beginnings

28″ x 22″ oil on canvas, 2023

Binds

36″ x 36″ oil on canvas, 2024

Eight

30″ x 30″ oil on canvas, 2024

Warmth

24″ x 36″ oil on canvas, 2024

Nuclear Grans

30″ x 30″ oil on canvas, 2023

HTX Smash

22″ x 28″ oil on canvas, 2023

Tortuga Pines

22″ x 28″ oil on canvas, 2023

Santa Fe Suns

28″ x 22″ oil on canvas, 2023

Rise

oil on canvas, 2023 – SOLD

Transparency

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Miami

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Untitled

17″ x 13″ calligraph print on paper 1/1, 2023

Untitled

17″ x 13″ calligraph print on paper 1/1, 2023

Untitled

17″ x 13″ calligraph print on paper 1/1, 2023

Windy City Winter

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Warms

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Cools

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

After

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Compliments

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Defining Style

24″ x 18″ acrylic on paper, 2022

Artist Statement

The road to painting, despite being a passion, was not direct for me. Instead, for most of my adult life I’ve focused my productive time on different endeavors, including a career in business marketing, about a decade lobbying education policy in Texas and serving as an elected school board Trustee, family building and community support; art creation was piecemeal. But I always found opportunities to paint: a mural here, a sign there, event decoration, small projects when painting was needed.

My personal beliefs and point-of-view which guides my work reflect experiences with different cultures and communities, having lived in multiple and vastly different states, as well as abroad. Colors are a huge focus of my memories, even from when I was a child; color combinations seem burnt into my mind. Additionally, the mention of certain locations can bring up an instant vision of light and specific color palette/memory.

I paint with oil on canvas. There is something about the texture of oil paint that gives me great joy when I am working; I love the layering of color that ultimately brings colors glowing on a canvas. I enjoy the process of bringing a design to life, sinking hours in planning the color interplay, and then ultimately to paint the image in a controlled, balanced way. Designs are often geometric and reminiscent of my color memories from a place or time, an image of something key to my history, or sometimes built with symbols to reflect current events or realities in our world.Colors can reflect or convey energy and emotion, and I seek to harness this in my paintings, so they can help do the same for the viewer and environment. When planning and painting my compositions, I’m seeking harmony in what is a particularly discordant time in our world; I hope that conveys to viewers, too.