About

Chrissy Angliker scoops and smoothes acrylic paint, creating pools that drip down rocky surfaces. The paintings are a marriage of form and function, as they are fluid in both brush marks and subject matter. Her energetic strokes, reminiscent of abstract expressionism, add movement to her paintings, so that the water swirls, and the figures are perpetually roaming the beach. As she states in her new book PAINT/ING/S, "My medium, paint, is...an intermediary between two worlds, the conscious and subconscious. I don't attempt to paint the people or the water specifically, or to …