CHRIS SOLARI

Chris Solari is a mixed media abstract artist using layers of paint, vintage découpage, marks, and erasures to tell a story. His work is driven by the idea that history is an ephemeral and elusive concept, something covered up time and time again as it is cast, recast, re-remembered, and re-construed. Through his multi-layered assembling and scraping away of layers, obscured fragments of a story slowly reveal themselves to the viewer and invite a kind of dialogue. Each painting is full of archaeological discovery, with images capturing memories like fossils trapped in amber-like paint.  

A recent Los Angeles transplant, Solari’s love for the visual arts grew out of his work in theater, film, and television. He credits Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and Mark Bradford as major influences. He works out of his studio in Austin, Texas.