Artabasy at Sardis
Chris Artabasy returns professionally to the art world with his
solo show “Ascent into Abstraction” at Sardis. With an
homage to some of Chris’ favorite 80’s music, this new show
reveals his biophilic compositions that suggest deconstructed
biospheres, plants, or marine landscapes, but edge
consistently toward abstraction.
After working to break free of realism in the nature of his
painting, Artabasy’s work deconstructs the medium to its
constituent elements—color, motion, and fluidity. Described
by the artist as “introspective biospheres ,” these complex
arrangements are built up with layers of oil paint, sometimes
interrupted by lines of oil stick and underlying acrylics. Vivid
colors in a broad range of concentration and transparency
fill up his canvases with brushstrokes in various marks,
shapes, and textures.