Chris Valle
Assistant Professor in Art
www.chrisvalleart.com

Chris specializes in painting and contemporary art; combing both representation and abstraction, and traditional and experimental approaches in painting.

In his current work, he transposes these images of pop culture over re-created Italian altar paintings from the 15-16th century, using the symbolic power of these religious images to allude to how pop images have now taken on religious status. He paints these images delivered from television transparently, allowing the original altar painting to show through, making it impossible to see one without the other. The resulting dialogue between the meaning of the original with the contemporary pop image on top of it deconstructs the quasi religious use of pop images in a consumer society.