Chrissy Angliker

b. 1983; Zurich, Switzerland; Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Chrissy Angliker’s painting practice focuses on creating a balanced relationship between the controllable and uncontrollable, while visually translating her perception of life itself. At the center of the artist’s practice lies a unique exploration of her ever-evolving partnership with paint. The artist’s investigation of the push and pull between control and chaos is depicted through intentional marks, each mark challenged by the nature of the medium. The transitional and oscillating tension between these two opposing elements is representative of Angliker’s search for a sense of grace. 

Having trained as a young student under the mentorship of Russian artist Juri Borodatchev, Angliker later broadened her means of expression by pursuing a degree in Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute in New York and worked as a post-graduate in the design industry before shifting back to painting in 2008. The artist’s hybrid background is visible through her calculated and frank yet painterly and unrestrained representations of her subjects. 

The ridges, crevices, and peaks created by Angliker’s brushstrokes place her paintings somewhere between dimensionalities, strikingly painterly and figurative while also definitively sculptural and impressionistic. When painting, Angliker aims to influence the paint rather than manipulate it, allowing herself to react to the nature of her medium. In the artist’s words, “As people, we have intentions, but must anticipate the intervention of outside forces beyond our power.”

Chrissy Angliker has presented two solo exhibitions with Massey Klein Gallery. Her work has been exhibited by the gallery at the Dallas Art Fair (2024, 2023) and in a solo presentation at Future Fair in New York City (2023).

Chrissy Angliker has exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States, including exhibitions with Craig Krull Gallery, Stalla Madulain, Galerie 94, Rarity Gallery, and Kleiner Von Wiese Gallery. The artist was featured on David Zwirner’s PLATFORM in the fall of 2022. 

Her work has been featured in numerous international print and online publications, including FAD Magazine, Interview, Platformart.com, Cool Hunting, Creative Boom, In Style, Forbes.com, The Know Culture, The Last Magazine, Bolero Magazine, and Hyperallergic, to name only a few. 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), among other international accolades and nominations, and has had site- and project-specific work commissioned by AOL America Online, Burton Snowboards, and Wired Magazine, among others. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.