Chriss Slevin

Chriss Slevin (b.1975) is a painter and textile artist based in New York city. Her creative practice centers on themes of embodiment, perception, and tensions between history and modernity.

Trained in both design and fine arts practices, Slevin’s paintings reject the efficiency and logic of design. Instead, the slow, tactile, and intuitive processes of painting are used as a space for exploring human experience. Her painting practice represents an ongoing investigation into the body as a shared, universal site of emotion, identity, and power. Using restricted color palettes, texture and expressive mark-making, her work explores how shape and distortion can communicate the complexities of embodied existence. Her process is an intuitive dialogue between hand and mind, prioritizing intuition, sensation and gesture over intellectual control.

Slevin holds a BFA in Painting and MFA in Textiles from Rhode Island School of Design. She was awarded a Vermont Studio School Residency Fellowship, and her work has recently been exhibited at the National Arts Club and Bowery Gallery, New York city.