Dallas-based artist Christopher Stewart explores the relationship between nature, time, and memory. His layered, gestural paintings reflect the quiet transformations that shape the landscape and, in turn, ourselves.
His paintings evoke a sense of fragility and the passing of time. Painterly movements contain varied textures and color, and the unpredictability of drips are often weaved into the composition.
As Stewart bridges the relationship between representation and abstraction, his works invite the viewer to linger in that space of transition, where feeling is never fixed but continually evolving. The paintings become meditations on change itself, on how mood, memory, and time shape not only what we see but how we come to understand what we feel.
Christopher Stewart is a visual artist based in Dallas, TX. He received a merit-based scholarship for painting at SMU in Dallas, Texas and graduated with a BFA in Studio Art (Painting and Printmaking). He also earned graduate degrees from SMU including a Masters in Art and a Masters of Business Administration. He has worked in design at the renowned de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, and has been the Creative Director for Black Eye in Dallas. Visual design has informed his painting especially drawing upon the continual process of editing and re-working. He’s been exhibited in the United States and in Mexico City.