Chris Minard
Born in 1985 in Sedona, Arizona, Chris Minard is an artist based in New York City whose practice includes painting, drawing, and printmaking. He is also an art director and set designer for film and television, as well as an adjunct professor at New York University where he teaches production design at the Tisch School of the Arts.
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Typically working in series by developing on a theme or title, my work focuses on quiet moments or pauses between actions: awareness, reflection, voyeurism, allusive intimacy. With a background in theatrical design and inspiration drawn from music, queer histories and culture, narrative concepts and structure are inherent in my practice, as are rich color and a detailed technique oscillating between realism and more lyrically observed representation.
The young men who populate my work, often alone and lost in thought, exist within oracular environments and architectural quotations that expand upon, rather than explain, their open narratives and psychological states. What goes unseen? What comes next? What does realization look like? What identity is created by context? Who will notice? I am drawn to questions and opportunity. My work celebrates moments of unmediated vulnerable softness as part of the continued expansion of nuanced queer art.
