About Christian
Christian Winslow has exhibited his paintings in cities throughout the United States and Europe since 1973.
He earned a BFA in Western Kentucky and gained more experience from the 1980s art scene in Houston, TX.
From 1988 to 1990, he was a Fellow Resident at Menil Foundation Housing Program, where he studied the works of the Menil Collection while completing the MFA program at University of Houston.
In 1990, he moved to Philadelphia, PA where he was active in regional exhibitions through 1998. He then relocated to Hoboken, NJ, becoming active in the New York/ New Jersey music/art scene. He was an original founding member of Icewagon Flu, an eccentric Irish New York City/ Hoboken bar band.
Winslow has over 15 years of experience teaching studio art to elementary and high school students in addition to his own practice.
Notable awards include:
2018 Best in Show
Contemporary Art Group - Watchung Art Center, Watchung, NJ Curated by Lora Urbanelli, Director, Montclair Art Museum1989 Recommendation Award
MFA Group Juried Exhibit - Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Curated by Marti Mayo, Chief Curator Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX1985 Recommendation Award
East End Show - Lawndale Annex, Houston, TX
Juried by Walter Hopps, Curator Menil Museum1974 First Place Award
Spring Annual Student Exhibition - Claire M Eagle Gallery, MSU Juried by Frank Piatek, Art faculty, Art Institute of Chicago
He currently lives in Manhattan with a studio across the river in NJ.
Interests: Sobriety and the Divine Principle, Geo-politics and the Oligarchic Principle, art education, history, NFL/Eagles football (a character defect), Captain Beefheart, jazz and Beethoven.
Artist Statement
These paintings are about color, form, light and different ways of seeing. The structure of the composition is aimed at drawing the viewer into a visual labyrinth, seeing things from multiple perspectives, starting and ending points. It’s a visual walk through these created spaces.
I started out drawing in oil wash, using a small pointed brush to do a line drawing of foreground and background. I usually do line drawings on several canvases, before I begin applying any color, hopefully allowing me more opportunity to work on compositionals issues on one painting that I might apply similarly on another. I’m using cubism or a stained glass window effect as references so as to allow me to break up the images to create a composite view or see a reality made up of many small views. The cubism aspect is an important focus for me as I continue to explore the many ways to work in that genre.
I frequently make changes in composition as I proceed to apply more layers of paint in various parts of the picture until I sense an overall balance in the painting. Proceeding, I experiment with a full range of paint application from transparent glazes to thick opaque textures. I’m putting things in and taking them out in this process until I feel the painting is telling me it’s complete.
Exhibit History
Solo Exhibits
2016 Paintings from America, Chateau de la Chassaigne, Theirs, France
2005 Masonic Paintings, Chateau de la Chassaigne Gallery, Theirs, France
1996 Recent Paintings, Caelum Gallery - New York, NY
1994 Painting and Works on Paper, Provident National Bank - Philadelphia, PA
1988 Master Thesis Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston - TX
1974 BFA Solo Exhibit, Claire M. Eagle Gallery, , MSU Campus - Murray, Ky
Group Exhibits
2022 Silk Mill Artist Collective Group Exhibit, Silk Mill Building, Union City, NJ
2020 Contemporary Arts Group Annual Member Exhibit, Watchung Art Center, Watchung, NJ
2019 Winter Art Exhibit, LITM Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2019 Corporeal Art Exhibit, LITM Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2018 Contemporary Arts Group, Group Show, Somerset Cultural & Heritage Gallery, Somerville, NJ
2018 Contemporary Arts Group, Upper Gallery, Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ
2018 Seeing Red - Contemporary Arts Group, South Avenue Arts Center, Garwood, NJ
2017 Annual Member Exhibit, Contemporary Arts Group , Watchung Art Center, Watchung, NJ
2017 What’s Next ProArts Group Exhibit, Harborside Atrium, Jersey City, NJ
2016 Hat City Kitchen, Orange, NJ Sculpture Relief Paintings Solo Exhibit
2015 Student/Faculty, William Paterson University Gallery, Wayne, NJ
2014 Cathedral Arts Festival Group Show, Grace Church, Jersey City, NJ
2014 Student/Faculty Exhibit, William Patterson University Gallery
2014 ProArts Annual Group Exhibit, ISO Tower Gallery, Jersey City,
2014 Sculpture Relief Paintings, Destin Fine Arts , Destin, FL
2013 ProArts NJ Cathedral Arts Festival Group Exhibit, Grace Church, Jersey City, NJ
2013 ProArts NJ Group Show, ISO Tower Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2012 ProArts NJ Group Exhibits, Visual Arts Center, Jersey City, NJ
2012 ProArts NJ Cathedral Arts Festival Group Show, Grace Church, Jersey City, NJ
2011 Metaphor, Muses, Mysteries, Victory Hall Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2010 ProArts NJ Cathedral Arts Festival Group Show, Grace Church, Jersey City, NJ
2009 Open Studio, The Yardly Studios, Union City, NJ
2009 Group Exhibit, Wedgeworks, Jersey City, NJ
2008 Group Exhibit, Wedgeworks, Jersey City, NJ
2006 Cathedral Arts Festival Group, Grace Church, Jersey City, NJ
2003 May Day Group Show - Main Gallery, 111 First Street - Jersey City, NJ
2002 Boundries, Mortimer Gallery, Gil St. Bernards - Long Valley, NJ
2001 First Friday Exhibit, The Lynn Foundation, Lower Gallery - Kansas City, MO,
2000 Matt Johnson/Christian Winslow, Recent Work, Wedgeworks - Jersey City, NJ
1998 Art 371 Tour Invitational, Wedgeworks - Jersey City, NJ
1997 Artists Studio Tour Festival Group Exhibit Elysian Hotel Hoboken, NJ
1995 Cezzane Celebration, New Paintings, The Winchester House - Longport, NJ
1993 Old City Phantom Gallery - Philadelphia, PA New Paintings,
1992 Paintings, Works on Paper Tattoo’s Philadelphia, PA
1990 It’s Just Art, Photos Collage & Works on Paper, Rutger’s University, New Brunswick
1989 Eleven Artists, College Avenue Studios - Philadelphia, PA
1987 Spring Annual Invitation, Marti Mayo, Curator, Blaffer Gallery - Houston, TX
1986 East End Show, Lawndale Annex - Houston, TX
1984 East End Show, Lawndale Annex - Houston, TX
1983 East End Show, Walter Hopps, Curator, Lawndale Annex - Houston, TX
1982 Outer Art for the Underworld, The Artery - Houston, TX,
1975 Photo Collage, Art Annex, University of Houston - Houston, TX
1974 Spring Annual Exhibition, Claire M. Eagle Gallery, , MSU Campus - Murray, KY
Collaborative Work
1993 Giant Puppets for Protest March - NOW Choice March on Washington DC Collaborated with Don Kennell and The Pittsburgh Rhythm Band 1993
1989 Ceremonial Performance: Robert Watts Wake, FLUXUS - Bangor, PA See July Issue, Art in America
1978 The Grand Fandango, Indoor installation - Art Annex, University of Houston Collaborated with Don Kennell, Derek Boshier, Richard Stout, (Video)
1984 Solo Dance/Video, submitted to PS1 (NYC)
Collaborated with Myrna Renaud, Transco Fountain
1973 Installation, Auxiliary Gallery, MSU - Murray, KY
Conversations with Dennis Oppenhiemer, Collaborated with Luke Oas.