Christian Little

Little’s acrylic paintings are based on contradiction. They are simultaneously erotic and sterile, stiff and fluid, analytic and absurd, actual and artificial.

Imagery

His imagery examines our voyeur culture preoccupied with sex, body image, drama and the lives of others. Abstracted figures engage in strange spaces and perform maintenance-based activities: shaving, bathing, scrubbing the shower floor, lifting weights, toweling off and straightening up. Marble surfaces, steam, mops, sponges, rubber gloves, and smoke are rendered in virtuosic trompe l’oeil.

Techniques

The faux-finishing and decorative painting techniques used in Little’s work encourage a self-conscious artifice that allows objects and spaces to both demonstrate and resist their inherent lack of dimension, recalling the shrinking divide between a life depicted online and lived IRL. Like a set on daytime or reality TV, pornography or a commercial, Christian Little’s paintings allude to, yet are removed from, the “real world.”

Education

Christian Little earned his MFA and BFA from State University of New York, New Paltz.

Solo exhibitions have been with

Sara Nightingale Gallery, Watermill, NY;

The Hewn Arts Centre, Jersey City, NJ

Vital Joint Gallery at the Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY.

His work has been included in exhibitions at

Zieher Smith, NY;

Thierry Goldberg, NY;

Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY

Beers, London, UK

Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston, NY;

The Ross School Gallery, East Hampton, NY;

Neoteric Fine Art. Amagansett, NY;

Kathryn Markel Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY among others.