Chris Liberti Exhibition

Join us in celebrating the opening reception for artists Chris Liberti and Ayesha Samdani at the John Natsoulas Gallery June 7th from 7-9 p.m. This exhibition includes renowned painters interested in abstraction as well as expressionism throughout their works. Both artists have decorated backgrounds in painting and have been known for their distinct works that are representative of their craft.

Chris Liberti is an American artist primarily known for his oil paintings of landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes. Chris was began illustrating at an early age and later attended Buffalo State College where he studied fine arts in painting. He is interested in the process of painting and finds it freeing to work without a particular subject in mind. Liberti centers his work by bringing together minimal abstraction and dimensionality in a way that allows for beautiful tensions and artistic paradoxes to co-exist. The way in which he explores various color fields is what sets him apart from other painters today.

Although there are certainly similarities that connect his works, each completed painting stands on its own: a distinct vision that Liberti has shepherded towards a necessary and unique conclusion. Some paintings come to the edge of realism, while others feature willfully invented patterns, intersections and overlaps.Liberti is a very direct, visually oriented artist who is relatively unconcerned with theories or conceptual underpinnings. He is also a painter without pretensions who speaks of his artistic process in very straight-forward terms: “I simply enjoy the process of painting, working with my hands, looking, mixing, adding a spot of color, standing back, looking and going in again.” He is a formalist who values perceptual experiences more than symbolism or context.