CHRIS CINQUE
Respiration
For many of us, breathing is affected by personal trauma, police brutality, systemic racism, COVID 19, horrific forest fires, governmental incompetence, and political dysfunction. This series attempts to address ways of breathing through such cataclysms.
M Series
Who was Giorgio Morandi? According to Karen Wilken, his work embodied “material and emotional density, frontality, self-sufficiency, and unpretentiousness”. This series investigates what those words mean to me.
Lockport
“One act of faith has remained a constant from paleolithic times to cubism, from Tintoretto to Rothko: that the visible contained hidden secrets, that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance. Thus paintings were there to reveal a presence behind an appearance—be it that of a Madonna, a tree, or simply, the light that soaks through a red.” John Berger
