"Untitled" Painting

American artist Chris Joubert (b. 1976) is an established, abstract painter known for his bold use of color, complex layering, rich texture, and balanced compositional weight. His large-scale works explore the imperfections of life, pain, inner-city struggle, and the emotional complexity of human experience.

Working and living in Houston, Texas, Joubert has developed a distinctive and continually evolving practice rooted in experimentation and intuition.

His work is created on raw canvas, drop cloths, wood, and steel, stretched over handmade frames or left intentionally distressed. Using brushes, sponges, and an array of unconventional tools—including drywall knives, margin trowels, concrete floats, saw blades, and homemade knives, he builds heavily textured, multi-layered surfaces.
Joubert’s process begins with preparing surfaces using gesso primer and elastomeric paint, allowing for flexibility and depth as layers accumulate. He works with a diverse range of materials, including acrylics, oils, watercolors, oil sticks, wax, crayons, chalk, pastel sticks, wood filler, mud compound, and metal shavings.

Each material is chosen intuitively, responding to emotion rather than a predetermined outcome. Creating without a fixed plan, Joubert allows the materials and process to guide the composition. This instinctive approach results in complex, immersive paintings defined by movement, pattern, and physical depth, works that reflect the rawness of lived experience.

His abstract impressionist style invites viewers to engage with the work emotionally and viscerally through color, mark-making, and texture. The paintings function as visual environments, encouraging personal interpretation and emotional resonance.

Influenced by extensive the realities of inner-city life, Joubert’s work seeks to shift perception, emotionally and intellectually, offering each viewer a uniquely personal experience, moved by the powerful connections formed within the layered surfaces of the work.