Chris Liberti


Chris Liberti
Raised and educated on the East Coast, Liberti studied at Buffalo State College. He shows extensively throughout the US including: New York, California, North Carolina, and Georgia

Liberti currently lives and works out of Charlotte, NC.

The subject matter in Chris Liberti’s paintings comes from his interest in the way the forms around him can be re-configured and made to work together. Whether Liberti is painting rooflines, bookshelves, palm trees or telephone poles, he sees them not as isolated elements, but as part of a larger scheme. In his carefully carpentered compositions, Liberti joins the edges of forms and the spaces that surround them into remarkably pleasing and luminous paintings. Strikingly balanced, Liberti’s canvases manage to be both highly-organized and free at the same time. Liberti has a feeling for paradox and knows how to create unexpected harmonies of form and color.

It’s the direct recording of visual sensations, taken from my environment that keeps me intrigued with the material of paint. How do the formal elements of painting give rise to a complete visual experience? For me, the subject matter is simply a vehicle to drive the painting’s relationships and interactions of the elements: space, color, light and shape. My eyes are always searching for these visual exchanges. Once you let yourself engage in this curiosity, there is plenty to discover. How does one object react to another, or a color next to another, what story or experience can come about from these encounters.

Education:

Fine Arts/Painting & Urban Planning BS - Buffalo State College

Select Exhibitions:

  • 2022 - Group show  - “Still Life 2.0” - Blue Spiral, Asheville, NC - March 4th - April 7th

  • 2021 - Group Show - “Magic Stillness” - Distance Gallery (online exhibit) - Sept 1 - Oct 1 https://www.distancegallery.com/exhibitions/exhibition-magic-stillness/

  • 2021 - Solo Show - “Spectator Sports” - Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY - June 12 - July 31

  • 2021 - Group Show -  “Spirit of Place” - John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA - April 7 - June 5

  • 2020 - Group Show - Summer Pleasures - Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta GA - June 25 - August 20

  • 2020 - Solo show  - “Foreign & Domestic” - Blue Spiral, Asheville, NC - March 6th - May 1st

  • 2020 - Group Show - Art of Painting in the 21st Century - John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA - March 4 - April 11

  • 2019 - Group show - “Microdose” - Booth Gallery, NYC - Dec 13th - Jan 18th

  • 2019 - Solo show - “Encountered Content” - Wingate University, NC - Oct 14 - Dec 6, talk on Oct 25

  • 2019 - Group show - “Summer Pleasures” - Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta GA - June 14 - August 17

  • 2019 - Solo show - “Simple Things” - John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA - May 22 - June 29

  • 2019 - Two person show - “Found Objects” - Thomas Dean’s Fine Art, Atlanta GA - April 26

  • 2018 - Group Show - International Figurative Biennale- John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA - August 15 - Sept 22

  • 2018 - Group Show - Summer Salon: Modern - Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY - July 21 - September 1

  • 2018 - Group Show - Summer Gallery Group Show - John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA - July 5 - August 11

  • 2018 - Group Show - Summer Pleasures - Thomas Deans Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA - June 8th

  • 2018 - Group Show - Art of Painting in the 21st Century - John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA - March 7 - April 7

  • 2018 - Group Show - Still Life - Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC - March 1 - April 27th

  • 2018 - Group Show - Still Life invitational - John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA - Jan 3 - Jan 27th

  • 2017 - Group Show - Small Works - Shain Gallery, Charlotte NC - Dec 7th

  • 2017 - Group Show - Summer Show - Shain Gallery, Charlotte NC - June 28 - July 28

  • 2017 - Solo show - John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA - May-June Dates TBD

  • 2017 - Group Show - Art of Painting in the 21st Century - John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA - Feb 1 - March 11

  • 2017 - Art Fair Group Show - Palm Springs International Art Fair, Palm Springs CA - Feb 16-18

  • 2016 - Group Show - Small works - Shain Gallery, Charlotte NC - Dec 2

  • 2016 - Juried group show - "Schema" - Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH - November 11 - December 9

  • 2016 - Solo Show - "Around the House" - Meibohm Fine Arts, East Aurora, NY - October 21 - November 19

  • 2016 - Solo Show - "Landscapes" - Gay Street Gallery, Little Washington VA - April 2 - June 6

  • 2016 - Group Show - "The Art of Painting" - John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA

  • 2016 - Art Fair - Palm Springs International Art Fair, Palm Springs CA

  • 2016 - Group Show - "Figure Show" - John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA

  • 2015 - Group Show - "14th Annual California Landscape Exhibition" John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA

  • 2015 - Group Show - LA Modernism (art fair) - April 24-26

  • 2015 - Solo show - "California etc." John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA

  • 2014 - Collection- Michael Levy Gallery Long Beach CA

  • 2014 - Group show - "13th Annual California Landscape Exhibition" John Natsoulas Gallery Davis CA

  • 2015 - Solo show - "California etc." John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA

  • 2013 - Collection - Meibohm Fine Arts Gallery East Aurora NY

  • 2013 - Juried Art Fair - Art Echo Fair, Buffalo NY

  • 2012 - Group show - Benjaman's Art Gallery Buffalo NY

  • 2012 - Juried Art Fair - Art Echo Fair, Buffalo NY

  • 2012 - Group Show - Art Guild of Clifton VA

  • 2012 – Group Show "Artists Among Us" - Burchfield Penny Museum Buffalo NY

  • 2011 - Collection - Benjaman’s Art Gallery Buffalo NY

  • 2004- Solo show - Wax Gallery Brooklyn (Williamsburg), NYC