Christopher Hurtig works across drawing, painting, and photography, maintaining distinct practices united by a persistent curiosity about perception and the nature of visible experience.
His drawing and painting work uses biological imagery including chromosomes and cell division - the structural grammar of living systems, as a vehicle for open-ended exploration. These are the structures that exist beneath and beyond what we can see: the machinery underneath reality. Working with minimal preparation, each piece unfolds organically, the forms emerging through the process of making itself. The result is a series of intimate vignettes, small windows into processes that are at once scientifically informed and deeply intuitive.
His photography practice operates from the opposite impulse, not generating form but finding it. Working across cities, landscapes, and interior spaces, Hurtig moves through the world with attention trained on what already exists: the geometry of a building at night, the particular quality of light in an unfamiliar place, the human figure within architecture.
Both practices circle the same question: what do we actually see when we look at the world?
Hurtig studied at Monmouth University and Studio Arts College International in Florence, Italy. His work has been exhibited in group shows and written about in the Asbury Park Press.
Christopher Hurtig (b. 1988, USA)
Education
2011 B.A. Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
2011 Studio Arts College International, Florence, Italy
Press
Anania, Billy. "Asbury Artist Experiments with Scientific Themes." Asbury Park Press.
Asbury Park Press, 27 Oct. 2016.