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EXHIBITIONS
![]() About the Artist Christopher Wilke was born in New Jersey in 1980. His parents discovered his artistic talents early on when he drew a picture for his father who was sitting across the table from him. Instead of drawing the picture and handing it to his father, the young child drew the image upside down so that his father could see it correctly from where he was sitting. Later Christopher's parents sent him to abstract painter and Parson's Graduate with honors, Geoffery DeMarco, who instilled an interest in abstract oil painting in the young teen. Geoffery introduced him to DeKooning, Pollock, and Bacon among others. He later moved west, and developed a serious interest in the Old Masters and their techniques, including Valezquez, Vermeer, and DaVinci as well as the 19th century Romantics such as Cot and Waterhouse. He began to research and apply their processes such as glazing and the proper use of chiaroscuro while making good use of his prodigious knowledge of the art of portrait photography which he perfected under the tutelage of Paul Skipworth and Steven Kramer, likewise influenced by such names as Sargent and Caravaggio.
Now residing once again in northern New Jersey,
Christopher Wilke continues to experiment with the figure and its ability
to create new archetypes through the use of narrative and environment.
He is also actively sought out to paint private portrait and figurative
art commissions for a growing clientele that are drawn to his mastery
of the human form and his ability to capture not only the likeness,
but the inner world of the sitter. ![]() |