Chris Engel

Christopher Engel’s work vibrates with the energy of bold, gestural lines that intersect at points between the foreground and background. These fields are bridged together in a web of kinetic, interconnecting lines which create a remarkable sense of three-dimensionality. The close examination of space, or how we create it and replenish a void, is a study that Engel has pursued since he started as a landscape painter in the early 70s. Engel was deeply affected by the relationship between the elements of the landscape; trees, shrubs, bushes and elements on the periphery. Everything worked to define the space that contained and moved him. Engel currently works out of his studio in near Rochester, NY. He continues to honor the influence of the natural landscape and remain enamored by the impact of color. With several canvases standing over four feet tall, the surfaces are rich in a sophisticated palette of earth tones; greens, browns, blacks, blues and occasional use of bright red and orange allude to an aesthetic that straddles both landscape and abstraction. Yet despite representational titles such as Canyon, Ice Storm and Clear Skies, Engel’s vision immerses the viewer in suggestions of horizon lines or tree branches rather than ori...

Education:
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Art Students League, New York, NY

COLLECTIONS:
Rouse Properties, New York, New York
Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Robert Heller, New York, NY
Kathleen Caraccio, New York, NY
Elisabeth Hahn, New York, NY
Mary Lou Knode, New York, NY
Carol Pulin, Washington, D.C.
Leslie and Stuart Reiser, Wayne, NJ.
Bee Lesser, Brooklyn, NY
Additional Private Collections

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2014 The Commons Gallery, Margaretville, NY
2014 Selections, Zoom Gallery, Fleishmanns, NY
2006 A Selection of Works, The Erpf Gallery, Arkville, NY
2004 Survey from the 1980’s to the Present, The Commons, Margaretville, NY
2004 Now, Then and Before, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY
1991 Turnstyle Works, Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY
1986 New Works, Hundredwaters Gallery, Seattle, WA
1986 Selected Works, Soho Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982 Rites of Passage, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2016 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY: Points of Intersection
2015 Longyear Gallery Invitational: Artists Invite Artists
2012 July Group Show Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (“WAAM”), Woodstock, NY
2012 July Small Works WAAM, Woodstock, NY
2012 April Members Show Untitled Landscape, WAAM, Woodstock, NY
2012 March “100% Byrdcliffe,” Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2011 November Group Show WAAM, Woodstock, NY
2011 November Small Works Show WAAM, Woodstock, NY
2011 December Annual 5” by 7” Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2011 October Group Show WAAM, Woodstock, NY
2011 September Group Show WAAM, Woodstock, NY
2011 J...