He attended medical school at the University of Washington. His work has been exhibited in national and international institutional and exhibitions. Chris Watts did his undergraduate work and played basketball at college in the state of Montana.
The artist has held various artist residencies, among them the Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation, Chelm, PL McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC the Art & Law Fellowship Program, at Cornell University Art Architecture Planning, New York, NY and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program, New York, NY. He graduated in Fine Arts from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, after attending the College of Arts and Architecture, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Wroclaw, PL. By totally erasing the figure, the paintings of Chris Watts emphasize the act of disappearance, a non-locatable subject, emancipating notions of blackness from the Western imagination and presenting possible ways in which history could be embodied.Ĭhris Watts was born in 1984 in High Point, NC.
Sourced from video footage depicting police violence towards black bodies, the abstract paintings overturn prescribed modes of figurative representation, placing a sense of absence instead. In a recent body of work, the artist addresses the figurative and abstract role of the black body. Thereby, the works foster an encompassing perceptual reception and a reconsideration of the terms of the visible. Painted on soft and sheer textiles like poly-chiffon, silk, or poly blend wraps, the disruption functions on a visual as well as tactile level, through the haptic qualities of the surface. During that, he admitted that he killed his wife. On August 15, 2018, two days after Shanann and her daughters disappeared, Chris failed a polygraph test and asked to speak with his father. These moments might be generated by absence, as well as through the representation of windows, into a layered assemblage of space where the distinction between reality and representation is thoroughly confused. Ronnie Watts played a key role in getting Chris to confess in the first place, so his view point matters a lot. Cheryln Cadle contacted him and started visiting him in prison. Within his work, the artist seeks to analyse, re-examine and revise existing conventions by means of their abstract representation, and re-evaluation.Īt the center of this artistic approach lies the creation of momentum of disruption. On August 13, 2018, Christopher Watts murdered his pregnant wife and two toddler daughters. Chris Watts is an abstract painter and mixed-media artist whose work interrogates social and personal narratives around embodiment, and understandings of the visible.
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