Chris Curchin
Yard's Brawler Six Pack, 2024
Oil on cardboard (recycled Six-pack box)
29 x 23 x 1-1/2"

Artist Statement
This painting is made on a Yard's Brewery beer six pack box that has been dissembled and mounted. It's part of a series that evolved out of experimenting with reusable surfaces . It began a few years back with antigen home test boxes and evolved to include a variety of different box types.

When you tear a box apart to recycle it these random shapes arise. I particularly enjoy the torn edges and the cut out shapes. They are relics that remind me somehow of manuscripts telling the story of the process, their recycling/creation.

Artist Bio
Chris Curchin was born in Rochester NY and studied film and animation in an experimental film program at Philadelphia College of Art, the now defunct University of the Arts, earning a BFA in 1982. A self taught painter, he began painting in 1985. Recent shows include The Bruce Museum Outdoor Art Festival, Pair in Process / Inliquid at the Hyatt, Upheaval; a solo show at Boston Street Gallery in Philadelphia and The Art of Healing at The Samaritan Center in Vorhees, NJ.

He currently teaches art and music at a non-profit arts-based preschool in Philadelphia.

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