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Christopher Stokes Christopher Stokes was born and raised in Philadelphia. In 1991, he began painting in Rome while studying architecture. Drawing inspiration from the surrounding environment, literary sources and symbols, a unique visual experience is created by interlaced and layered fragments of images, color, lines, scrawl and a patchwork of new and eroded materials. Stokes sets out with no preparatory sketches. This unselfconscious style evolves on the canvas resulting in a highly textured and manipulated surface. Fragments of objects and texts are revealed, obscured and then coaxed out of hiding only to resurface transformed. He has exhibited his art throughout San Francisco and a number of his paintings reside in private collections around the world. |
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