“Fact or Fluff” 2021, Mixed Media on Canvas—24”x36”x2.25”—Available at Helios Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas.
Christopher Louis D’Errico paints, takes photos and makes collages. Some of them are for sale—hence this website.
“CURRICULUM VITAE”
EDUCATION
Self-taught artist. Dropped out of college to drink, do drugs, play in rock bands and chase women. Mission accomplished.
EXHIBITIONS
Chris continues to showcase his paintings and collages in private art galleries and public art exhibitions. Listed below is the latest.
Oct/2020 - Jan/2021
D’Errico has a painting hanging at Las Vegas City Hall Chamber Gallery as part of a three month long group show featuring the work of local artists.
Feb/2021 - March/2021
Mixed media painting included in group show (“Memento Mori”) at Compulsion Studio & Gallery, 900 Karen Ave. #B-218, New Orleans Square, Las Vegas, Nevada.
May/2021
Mixed media painting included in group show (“Fluff”) at Helios Fine Art Gallery, 1025 South 1st Street, Suite 150, Las Vegas, Nevada.
“ARTIST STATEMENT”
I appropriate images from the outside world, but mostly conjure up scenes from my own head, going by intuition, “letting the canvas tell me what it wants” as I’ve heard other abstract artists say. I play with abstraction, and abstraction plays with doubt—doubt keeps an open mind, an open mind sees possibilities. I work with symbols, iconography, ambiguity—by accident and intent—adding, subtracting layers of paint, glue, cut-up magazine ads, pencil and old print newspaper. I take photos with my cellphone camera, manipulating them with apps available to anybody. More than repetition and formula, I am interested in varied rhythm, mood, improvisation and new structures. Analog or digital, my artwork corresponds to my attitude and taste—eclectic and mercurial. I draw inspiration from many sources... The irreverence and spontaneity of Dada, DIY Garage Rock, autodidactic Folk and so-called Primitive or Outsider Art... The moody introspection of Jazz and gestural markings of Abstract Expressionism... The elegance and ambience of Minimalism... The weird truth of Absurdism, and the gritty reality of Noir Fiction. I have no formal academic art degree, no pedigree. I am self-taught, I am a mongrel. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, at heart I’m a salty East Coaster, but for the past twenty years I have made my home in Las Vegas, Nevada. Like Sin City with its neon and kitsch, always in flux, I try not to take myself too seriously, finding beauty in spurious things and structures barely held together—and a kinship with those who feel they’re not quite at home.
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Thank you for visiting. Please take a look around. I hope my artwork resonates in one way or another. Spark a different thought, a feeling, a notion. That’s really the whole point of this. Plus, you spending some of your discretionary income on my artwork—that, too. Thanks in advance.
Christopher Louis D’Errico
Las Vegas, Nevada
March 2021
“CURRICULUM VITAE”
EDUCATION
Self-taught artist. Dropped out of college to drink, do drugs, play in rock bands and chase women. Mission accomplished.
EXHIBITIONS
Chris continues to showcase his paintings and collages in private art galleries and public art exhibitions. Listed below is the latest.
Oct/2020 - Jan/2021
D’Errico has a painting hanging at Las Vegas City Hall Chamber Gallery as part of a three month long group show featuring the work of local artists.
Feb/2021 - March/2021
Mixed media painting included in group show (“Memento Mori”) at Compulsion Studio & Gallery, 900 Karen Ave. #B-218, New Orleans Square, Las Vegas, Nevada.
May/2021
Mixed media painting included in group show (“Fluff”) at Helios Fine Art Gallery, 1025 South 1st Street, Suite 150, Las Vegas, Nevada.
“ARTIST STATEMENT”
I appropriate images from the outside world, but mostly conjure up scenes from my own head, going by intuition, “letting the canvas tell me what it wants” as I’ve heard other abstract artists say. I play with abstraction, and abstraction plays with doubt—doubt keeps an open mind, an open mind sees possibilities. I work with symbols, iconography, ambiguity—by accident and intent—adding, subtracting layers of paint, glue, cut-up magazine ads, pencil and old print newspaper. I take photos with my cellphone camera, manipulating them with apps available to anybody. More than repetition and formula, I am interested in varied rhythm, mood, improvisation and new structures. Analog or digital, my artwork corresponds to my attitude and taste—eclectic and mercurial. I draw inspiration from many sources... The irreverence and spontaneity of Dada, DIY Garage Rock, autodidactic Folk and so-called Primitive or Outsider Art... The moody introspection of Jazz and gestural markings of Abstract Expressionism... The elegance and ambience of Minimalism... The weird truth of Absurdism, and the gritty reality of Noir Fiction. I have no formal academic art degree, no pedigree. I am self-taught, I am a mongrel. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, at heart I’m a salty East Coaster, but for the past twenty years I have made my home in Las Vegas, Nevada. Like Sin City with its neon and kitsch, always in flux, I try not to take myself too seriously, finding beauty in spurious things and structures barely held together—and a kinship with those who feel they’re not quite at home.
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Thank you for visiting. Please take a look around. I hope my artwork resonates in one way or another. Spark a different thought, a feeling, a notion. That’s really the whole point of this. Plus, you spending some of your discretionary income on my artwork—that, too. Thanks in advance.
Christopher Louis D’Errico
Las Vegas, Nevada
March 2021
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