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"The central theme of my work is the ability of light to transform. Although I select and place my subjects carefully, they are mostly drawn from the insignificant artifacts of everyday life. They lack a strong ego and without the stage I build for them, they would likely be overlooked. The interiors I choose are similarly anonymous. I’m drawn to these spaces and objects that lack a strong individual presence, and I rely primarily on light to transform an abandoned interior and enigmatically placed object into a secular altar.

In particular I find that the quality of light can be essential to building the sense of tension I want in my work. The quiet aspect of my paintings, as well as my frequent use of symmetry, would seem to undermine any tension, but I feel the silence present in the paintings suggests an anticipation: an event about to happen. Light contributes to this quality, but it is also enhanced by my dependence on visual information from my imagination and memory. Combining these strategies, I attempt to build a rhythm in my work that recalls the pace of ritual and dreams. Paradoxically, for a painter who is most often judged a “Realist,” I find this rhythm comes more often from invention than from direct observation. "

--Christopher Terry

Yellow Door
Blue Willow Vista
Blue Table
oil on canvas, 28" x 36" SOLD
oil on canvas, 48" x 36" SOLD
oil on canvas, 24" x 32"
Black and White
Reflected Ceiling Tiles
Bananekurbis
oil on canvas, 37" x 48"
oil on canvas, 32" x 40"
oil on canvas, 29" x 41"
Plum Wine
Fluorescent Illumination
Korean Bowl
oil on canvas, 29" x 41" SOLD
oil on canvas, 37" x 49"
oil on canvas, 42" x 47"
Dusseldorf Rosette
Interior with Columns
Empty Frame
oil on canvas, 47" x 37" SOLD
oil on canvas, 43" x 49"
oil on canvas, 43" x 46" SOLD
Red Tile Studio
Turk's Head Squash
Orange Bowl
oil on canvas, 37" x 29" SOLD
oil on canvas, 37" x 47" SOLD
oil on canvas, 32" x 40"

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