Chris Trueman: Absence of Atmosphere

Edward Cella Art & Architecture is proud to present a new body of works by Chris Trueman in an exhibition entitled, Absence of Atmosphere. Embracing a world of emptiness, where everything seems to exist on the verge of dissolution or liquefaction; Trueman creates layered supercharged compositions of gestural paintings with shifting grounds and unsettled relationships of foreground and background.

In the artist’s third solo show with the gallery, Trueman marks a new relationship in his practice with the Light and Space movement so indelible to the art of the West Coast. Confronting the perfection of surface, the new paintings are punctuated with unstable fluctuations and reversals yet saturated with daring atmospheric spectrums. Though crafted of minimal, thin layers of acrylic Trueman’s newest series of paintings are anything but delicate. They are slippery, and they have both the transparency of glass and the flashes and grit of human hormones.

Trueman states, “I want to make paintings that appear to be making themselves as though they have been frozen in a state of transition, in the process of shedding off their previous selves, caught mid shift in a cycle of becoming and of self-destruction. I think they also speak to fragility, transience, and change.”