Deftly blending abstraction and figuration, Chris Hood creates layered, surreal compositions to explore, as he describes, “how a painting can be a site of many modes of viewing.” His works are densely populated with a wide variety of imagery, including cartoons, portals into landscapes, and emojis which fracture and multiply. Hood also experiments with different processes, including painting on the raw canvas’s reverse side so that the paint stains the front in muted veils of color.
