Massey Klein Gallery is pleased to announce participation in Future Fair with new paintings by Chrissy Angliker. Hosted at the Chelsea Industrial on West 28th Street, the fair will host a VIP viewing on Wednesday, May 10th, and will be open to the public on May 11-13, 2023. For inquiries regarding the fair including works available, please email info@masseyklein.com.
Chrissy Angliker's painting practice is an active conversation with the paint material. Building up the paint to create heavily textured works, Angliker’s imagery exists on a spectrum as it becomes increasingly indiscernible and abstracted the closer it is viewed.
The fair with Massey Klein marks the first occasion in which Angliker will publicly exhibit her interiors series in person. Drawing from real life references, her most recent works create and touch space, painting them as her own felt interior. Creating a balanced relationship between the controlled and uncontrollable, Angliker describes the physicality of inner light, temperature, and her own self perception in relation to the world, as she works on and is continually inspired by the cusp of the physical and illusionary.
Simultaneously, the interior spaces that kicked off this series were photographed in the region of Switzerland where one of Angliker’s favorite artists, Alberto Giacometti, is from. While her interiors were taking form, Angliker drew constant inspiration from Giacometti’s portraits of his subjects in interiors, paying special attention to the desperation and physicality of the sculptor’s hand touching paint, digging for surfaces. Working through and alongside paint, Angliker influences rather than controls the medium to form self-portraits of inner dialogue, providing physical, imaginative descriptions of the relation between the internal and environment.
Angliker has exhibited extensively in both Europe and the US and her work has been featured in several international print and online publications, including Interview Magazine, David Zwirner's Platform, Forbes.com, The Know Culture, The Last Magazine, Bolero Magazine, and Hyperallergic. In 2016, Neidhard & Schoen AG published an in-depth book, Chrissy Angliker PAINT/ING/S, examining Angliker's process and resulting paintings with a focus on her work created between 2014 and 2016. Angliker has been awarded the Rowena Reed Kostellow Award (Pratt Institute) and the International Takifuji Art Award (Tokyo). She will have a solo exhibition with Massey Klein in 2024.
