Chris Liberti is a painter currently living in Charlotte, NC who studied at Buffalo State College with Jim Phalen.
In an interview with John Seed of the Huffington Post, Liberti said looking at Diebenkorn’s works, and studying their compositions has been very important and goes further to say:
Inclined to work and rework his surfaces, Liberti is “rarely satisfied” until an image has gone through many transformations and variations. “I have a problem deciding when things are finished,” he admits. “I’m never truly happy.” For a painting to feel “right” enough to call it finished, he needs it to at least come together in a way that is strong and original enough to emanate a certain range of possibilities: “If I can get into a piece and get into that ‘space’, someone else will feel that same way. I’m not looking for a specific feeling.”
In his best works Chris Liberti brings together abstraction and representation in a way that allows beautiful tensions and artistic paradoxes to co-exist. He plays the organic off of the geometric, sets transparency next to opacity, and contrasts depth with flatness. His finished works are balancing acts that demonstrate just how thoughtfully and methodically he has struggled to maintain those tensions.
“Painting is simple but complicated,” Liberti says: “I like to keep it that way.”
Painting Perceptions was started in 2009 by Larry Groff to promote the ideas, practice and experience of painters working from observation in a modernist vein from around the world through interviews, essays, videos and community. It later evolved to include imagination-based and abstract painting as well.
Chris, I am searching for a painting for my new home, over the mantle. I am interested in knowing availability and price of 3 of your paintings in this slide show. “Day of shape and color” is one. “Note” is one. The third is “out the window”. Please contact me at email address below.
Chris, loved your exhibit at Meibohm in East Aurora which I saw today (Nov 18).
Would be interested in purchasing at least one of your works, possibly 2. They are BLACK CHAIR and OUT THE YARD. Grace M. and I will connect after Thanksgiving. Would like to discuss price.
thank you Larry. I wasn’t familiar with Mr. Liberti’s paintings. Lovely stuff.