Chris Duncan
Chris Duncan is an interdisciplinary artist that employs the use of color, repetition, and reflections, along with a wide variety of materials to ponder ideas such as perception and balance, in both conceptual and physical forms. Often in flux between the overwhelming and the minimal, rooted in simple application methods, Chris chooses accessible means of making in hopes to make broader connections beyond the typical art viewer. With accessibility in mind, Chris has also been publishing books, zines and releasing records for over a decade. Under the moniker Hot and Cold, Chris co-published a seven year long, 10 issue series of hand-built art books including well over 100 artists. Under the current moniker Land and Sea, he has teamed up with his partner, Maria Otero, to release monographs and records of artists they believe in.
Beyond constructing paintings, drawings, installations with string, and publishing he has also ventured into experimental sound making and people gathering. As THE SUN, under the same premise of his more traditional forms of art-making, Duncan creates sonic happenings that, by design, dismantle the idea of audience and performer, and offer a space for anyone willing, to contribute and participate.
Duncan has performed, exhibited, or is …
Chris Duncan is an interdisciplinary artist that employs the use of color, repetition, and reflections, along with a wide variety of materials to ponder ideas such as perception and balance, in both conceptual and physical forms. Often in flux between the overwhelming and the minimal, rooted in simple application methods, Chris chooses accessible means of making in hopes to make broader connections beyond the typical art viewer. With accessibility in mind, Chris has also been publishing books, zines and releasing records for over a decade. Under the moniker Hot and Cold, Chris co-published a seven year long, 10 issue series of hand-built art books including well over 100 artists. Under the current moniker Land and Sea, he has teamed up with his partner, Maria Otero, to release monographs and records of artists they believe in.
Beyond constructing paintings, drawings, installations with string, and publishing he has also ventured into experimental sound making and people gathering. As THE SUN, under the same premise of his more traditional forms of art-making, Duncan creates sonic happenings that, by design, dismantle the idea of audience and performer, and offer a space for anyone willing, to contribute and participate.
Duncan has performed, exhibited, or is the collection of institutions such as Museum of Modern Art, Berkeley Art Museum in California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Arts Commission, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis.
Courtesy of Halsey McKay Gallery
