Christopher Astley

Umwelt — Jakob von Uexküll's term for the unique perceptual world each organism inhabits.

In his first solo exhibition with the gallery, New York artist Christopher Astley presents fifteen new oil paintings that channel both the conceptual weight of the term and its poetic openness. Each piece embraces the freedom of painting, flowing in the direction it demands, arriving where it needs to.

Perception and the nature of reality have long been a chief concern of Astley's practice. Here, that inquiry extends into a body of work willing to embrace the complexity of the world and the strangeness of life.