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CHRIS TRUEMAN: EDGE OF THE WEST
OFFSITE EXHIBITION at 45 FREMONT STREET , 15 March - 17 May 2025
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CHRIS TRUEMAN: EDGE OF THE WEST: OFFSITE EXHIBITION at 45 FREMONT STREET

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  • ON VIEW AT 45 FREMONT Street CHRIS TRUEMAN THE EDGE OF THE WEST March 15 - May 17, 2025 Set...

    ON VIEW AT 45 FREMONT Street

    CHRIS TRUEMAN 

    THE EDGE OF THE WEST

    March 15 - May 17,  2025

     

    Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s vibrant Financial District, this offsite exhibition transforms the lobby of a sleek modernist office building into a public art space.

    Located at 45 Fremont Street Trueman's vibrant abstract paintings reflect and respond to the energy of the city.

    We invite you to view this dynamic interface of art and urban space  through May 17, 2025.

     

    Many thanks to Cathy Baum and Associates for organizing this exhibition. 

    • Chris Trueman SWTC, 2024 acrylic on Yupo mounted on Sintra board 60 x 54 inches
      Chris Trueman
      SWTC, 2024
      acrylic on Yupo mounted on Sintra board
      60 x 54 inches
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    • Chris Trueman SNBND, 2023 acrylic on cna canvas 72 x 60 inches
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      SNBND, 2023
      acrylic on cna canvas
      72 x 60 inches
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    • Chris Trueman LJC, 2025 acrylic on cna canvas 72 x 60 inches
      Chris Trueman
      LJC, 2025
      acrylic on cna canvas
      72 x 60 inches
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    • Chris Trueman CLSTK, 2023 acrylic and acrylic spray paint on canvas 80 x 69 inches
      Chris Trueman
      CLSTK, 2023
      acrylic and acrylic spray paint on canvas
      80 x 69 inches
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    • Chris Trueman SAURN, 2024 acrylic on canvas 72 x 60 inches
      Chris Trueman
      SAURN, 2024
      acrylic on canvas
      72 x 60 inches
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  • In this public showcase of recently completed large scale paintings,  Chris Trueman creates moments of light and space that collectively record and represent the passage of time. Each layered gradient intermingles with gestures and color, overlaying the previous record and marks. Trueman brings the California tradition of light and space artists - drawing influence from artist James Turrell - by recognizing the unique light of living on the edge of the West Coast and Western world into painting. 

     

    Finding inspiration in urban environments, the California artist specifically reflects on graffiti walls as the arena in which a battle between public and private space takes place. At any given time, the wall surface presents a snapshot of competing interests; an interface between the steward of the property and the individual that is adding their mark upon it. In this analogy Trueman plays both roles, with the canvas acting as a wall upon which various layers of paint are applied and removed. Rather than painting the perceived wall back to blank, he seeks to turn the stroke of paint – the residue of the hand - into light and space. This transformation is never complete. Evidence of the history that came before persists without perceived finality in a state of competing points of view that simultaneously direct the attention off into the distance, only to pull us back the immediate vibrancy of his paintings.

     

    Chris Trueman graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003, earning dual BFA degrees in Painting and Digital Media. He relocated to southern California to attend Claremont Graduate University, earning a MFA in 2010. Trueman currently teaches at Chaffey College and has previously taught at Chapman University, Fullerton College and Santa Ana College. He has guest lectured at Chapman University, Pomona College and Santa Ana College and was a Northrup Grumman Visiting Artist/Scholar at the Museum of Art and History Lancaster. Trueman has exhibited his work in numerous exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, Portland and internationally in Milan, Paris, Berlin, Beijing and Brisbane (AUS).

     

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