Meet artist Christopher Chaffin in studio.

I began drawing and painting at a young age. Inspired by sixties concert posters, album covers and Pop Art, I studied Advertising Design and Illustration at Northern Arizona University and Art Center. After college I pursued a 30+ year career in San Francisco as an art director/creative director. In 2011, a weeklong art workshop at Esalen reignited my first love of making art. My studio is located in the ICB in Sausalito, CA.

The two primary components of my art are autobiographical and observational. On the one hand, I source imagery from various aspects of myself and my history such as experience in the world of advertising, cross-cultural encounters and past travels, both real and imaginary. On the other, I incorporate impressions of daily life such as the chaos of urban density and din, technology’s disorienting impact on our senses and random details, graphics and things momentarily noticed in passing. Painting with acrylic on wood panels, the focus is on abstraction and how the elements of color, pattern, shape and texture create visual surprise when presented in unexpected combinations

Learn more about Christopher.
https://www.chaffinart.com

Exhibitions

• 2022 UC Hastings Law “Ripples” 
• 2022 Marin Masters
• 2022 Marin Open Studios
• 2021 The Artist Alliance “Contemporary Abstraction” 
• 2021 Las Lagunas Art Gallery “Purely Abstract”
• 2021 The Artist Alliance “Imaginary Travel”
• 2021 The Artist Alliance “Terrain”
• 2020 The de Young Open, de Young Museum
• 2019 Jen Tough Gallery “Wild Things”
• 2019 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts “Something About Lines”
• 2019 Marin Open Studios
• 2019 ICB Winter Open Studios
• 2017 ICB Winter Open Studios
• 2016 Toad Fish Gallery, Sausalito
• 2015 Sausalito Library Summer Show
• 2015 Locals Tasting Room, Geyserville, CA
• 2015 ICB Winter Open Studios
• 2014 ICB Winter Open Studios
• 2013 ICB Winter Open Studios