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always looking for 🦜🌒🍯🥑🍒🥭🍋🌙🦋🕊️🌸🦞🍮🍇🐟🦂🦩 taken in Cartagena de Indias by @chrisrodrilopez

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I’m briefly back in this old studio making some newer, larger work. I have yet to title these paintings (or finish them completely) and will likely not title them for a few weeks or months.

I find the task of naming artworks excruciating because my paintings are not vessels to advance particular ideas or oblique narratives. The necessity of titles is really about ascribing meaning. Other things are completely excused from this questioning… taken in Manhattan, New York by @chrisrodrilopez

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a year ago

studio bits and bobs

made these in italy and brought them back to NY

baila baila baila

every scrap is a painting

more cropping

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sketch taken in New York, New York by @chrisrodrilopez

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7 days ago

SOLD — I spent all winter trying to get this painting right, only for it to come together all at once in a single session late at night a few weeks ago —

— and now it’s hanging in friends’ home in Brooklyn 🙂‍↔️

Montserrat (2026), oil on canvas, 36x48 in taken in New York, New York by @chrisrodrilopez

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2 months ago

SOLD — 2026, oil on canvas, 22x28 in — now hanging in a friend’s home in the east village 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️✨✨✨🌟🗽💎🐦‍🔥❤️‍🔥 taken in New York, New York by @chrisrodrilopez

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2 months ago

2026, oil on canvas, 16x20 in, matted and framed in natural wood taken in New York, New York by @chrisrodrilopez

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reading aesthetics can be weird, but Bachelard said the house is a body // equal parts cradle, backdrop, refuge // to re-inhabit its rooms is to re-inhabit one’s own inner life // If there were no trust in the world, would a nest ever be built?

Pastoral (2026)
26x30” in
oil on canvas taken in New York, New York by @chrisrodrilopez

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4 months ago

I read a lot of Jill Lepore and Paul Bloom’s public writing on AI and the consequences of moving towards an artificial state of reality / government. They write extensively about how our information ecosystem has been redesigned by a handful of companies to lead us down rabbit holes, into outrage cycles, towards ideological and aesthetic extremes and into emotional overload. The answer is likely not more tech — it does not seem that LLMs can cure our loneliness or algorithms will restore our sense of a shared future.

This feeling, that kind of fog, has been my artistic point of departure for a few years now. Painting is a personal escape from it and an effort to translate some of the fury I observe and internalize while caught in between the fold of human and machine chatter. Not to explain it in a literal or direct way, but to process it and respond to it visually.

Deambular (2026)
55x72 in
oil on canvas taken in New York, New York by @chrisrodrilopez

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5 months ago

taken in Puerto rico <3 ;) by @chrisrodrilopez

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My favorite bits of culture that I consumed / watched / read this year, in no particular order:

1 - Pat Lipsky, Turing II (1968) from Color Next to Color at James Fuentes October 2025
2 - Helen Frankenthaler, Painting Without Rules and Tarsila do Amaral, Painting Brazil at Guggenheim Bilbao May 2025
3 - I’m Still Here, Walter Salles featuring Fernanda Torres
4 - Catherine Goodman, Silent Music at Hauser & Wirth February 2025
5 - The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodóvar featuring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore
6 - The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
7 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
8 - De Amor y De Sombra by Isabell Allende
9 - Willem de Kooning, Endless Painting at Gagosian April 2025
10 - Twilight in Kyiv by Andrew Marr in the New Statesmen November 2025
11 - Why I Broke Up With New York by Lena Dunham in the New Yorker May 2025
12 - Sargent and Paris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art June 2025
13 - too many nights at boom
14 - Service 95 pod / Night People by Mark Ronson
15 - Dario Vitale’s Versace rip
16 - Oh Mary !
17 - Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe / Hulu
18 - música !
19 - MAYHEM by @chrisrodrilopez

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7 months ago

last gallery show of the year ;)

these two paintings will be on view at Kino Saito, the site of Kikuo Saito’s (1939-2016) former studio, from DECEMBER 12 - 21.

50% of sale proceeds from this exhibition go towards supporting the foundation’s residencies and programming, rooted in the creation and practice of abstract art and committed to nurturing experimentation in every form and medium.

If you are visiting the Hudson Valley soon, make sure you stop by ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 ADDRESS: 115 7th St, Verplanck NY

Bacchus I and II (2023)
9 x 11.5”
oil on canvas taken in KinoSaito by @chrisrodrilopez

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8 months ago

Küsse aus dem ausland 🫦 taken in Berlin, Germany by @chrisrodrilopez

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9 months ago