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Kristopher Lionel

Connecticut, United States
Artist (Painting, Sculpture)
Born 1971
"I remember that day how the ocean's blue shed a shade or two at the sun's behest and then later how that fickle sea took back a shade or three as the sun tired and fell to rest." -Kristopher Lionel

Kristopher is a contemporary American artist whose work, which includes paintings, wall art, and sculpture, has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout New England and are included in both private and public collections. In April 2022, Kristopher was invited to join the Silvermine Guild of Artists in New Canaan CT. His work has received numerous awards including: 2022 - Honorable Mention in Light Space Time Gallery's 13th Abstracts Art Exhibition (United States). 2022 - Finalist in Art Show International Gallery's 4th PORTRAIT Art Competition (international). 2021 - 1st Place, Overall. Light Space Time Gallery's 5th Annual Abstracts Art Exhibition (United States). 2021 - 1st Place, Paint & Other Media. Light Space Time Gallery's 5th Annual Abstracts Art Exhibition (United States). 2021 - Honorable Mention, Light Space Time Gallery's 12th Abstracts Art Exhibition (United States).

Kristopher attended the art program at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, where he received his BFA with a concentration in sculpture (graduating cum laude and being awarded Departmental Distinction in Art). He then enrolled in the postgraduate sculpture program at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, where he received his MFA. In school, Kristopher developed his interest and skills in wood and metalworking. After graduating, he moved to Atlanta, GA, where he worked as a metal fabricator. Applying this experience, Kristopher moved to his home state of Connecticut to launch a business designing and making artistic furniture. He ran his business until 2009 when he decided to close his furniture shop to focus singularly on his life's purpose—to make art.

Kristopher's artistic focus shifts between several series that include, interactive sculpture, wall sculpture, abstract painting, and allegorical painting, all conceptually connected by themes directly and indirectly related to or inspired by Nature. Through an ongoing series of allegorical paintings, using symbolism and satire, Kristopher explores themes of environmental degradation brought on by human activity. He examines the consequences of our relationship to the natural world where we have placed ourselves above and outside of Nature as apposed to intrinsically connected to it.

In his abstract painting and wall sculpture, he uses color, shape, line, material, and composition, expressively to create evocative, visually immersive works.

Currently, Kristopher is focused on the development of a sculpture series titled, 'Time Will Tell', which will ultimately include twenty-four, interactive, sound-generating, mechanical sculptures. Individually, the sculptures will vary in scale and material but they will all generate the sound of rain. The sculptures in the series 'Time Will Tell' raise questions about technology, utility, purpose, and our relationship to Nature.


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The first piece in my series, 'Surfaces', is a work titled, 'The Moment Ossified (Surface 1)'. To talk [...]
The first piece in my series, 'Surfaces', is a work titled, 'The Moment Ossified (Surface 1)'. To talk about this piece, and the resulting series, I need to provide the backdrop, the setting that led to it's conception. After receiving my Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree in 1994, then going on to attain my Master of Fine Art Degree in 1997, both with concentrations in sculpture, I was offered a job working in a metal fabrication studio in Atlanta, GA. After a couple of years of this, I decided that it wasn't satisfying my creative compulsions, so I moved back the the Northeast to start an artisan/art furniture design and fabrication business (a "commercial" use of my skills with the ulterior motive of "working on my art" in the space and with the tools and equipment used to build the furniture). Part of setting up my workshop was to build a large table as a main working surface, the base of this table had a 1/2 inch (removable) sheet of plywood screwed to it as a top. I made it removable knowing that it would take a lot of wear and tear and eventually need to be replaced.

A number of years later, as I was looking at this worktable that had accumulated several years of cuts, scratches, holes, and stains, I saw shapes and lines suggesting a strong composition and realized that it was calling out to be made into a work of art, a wall sculpture. With paint and stain I began to emphasize selected shapes and obscure others. After working on it laid flat for a time (often looking down from atop an eight foot ladder), I separated it from its base and worked on it upright, cutting through it and making the recessed shapes you see in the finished piece. Working through the process of discovering and creating this piece, I decided that "Surface" (thought of as both noun and verb) was how I would name it. Years of building furniture on this work-surface resulted in a rich, uncontrived, accumulation of mark that would be difficult, if not impossible to mimic or reproduce. These marks eventually surfaced to reveal the composition of an artwork. 'Surface' is both what it is and how it came to be.

* A note about the series, 'Surfaces':

The process described above, in which the accumulation of mark resulted from making furniture, ended when I decided that furniture making wasn't satisfying my creative compulsions and closed my business to focus singularly on my artwork. The lines and marks, etc, in 'Dissociating and Tumbling (Surface 4)', and all 'Surfaces' moving forward, were/are accumulated from my art-making process.
Sculpture titled "The Beat of a Drago…" by Kristopher Lionel, Original Artwork, Wood
The Beat of a Dragonfly's Wings (Surface 2) - Sculpture, 59.5x47 in ©2015 by Kristopher Lionel - Abstract, abstract-570, Landscape, abstract, abstract art, abstract landscape, dragonfly, dragonly's wings, summer, surreal, surrealism, surrealist painting, surrealistic artworks, sculpture, wall art, wood sculpture, steel, red, orange, blue, abstract expressionism, expressive artwork, gifts

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"The Beat of a Dragonfly's Wings (Surface 2)"

Sculpture - Wood | 59.5x47 in

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Sculpture titled "The Moment Ossified…" by Kristopher Lionel, Original Artwork, Pigments
The Moment Ossified (Surface 1) - Sculpture, 47x80.5 in ©2014 by Kristopher Lionel - Surrealism, surrealism-627, Abstract, surreal, surrealism, surrealist oil painting, surrealistic landscape, mindscape, abstract landscape, abstract painting, wall art, sculpture, expressionism, wall sculpture, collage, wood sculpture, bas-relief, expressive art, artwork, interior design, fine art, contemporary sculpture

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"The Moment Ossified (Surface 1)"

Sculpture - Pigments | 47x80.5 in

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Sculpture titled "'Dissociating and T…" by Kristopher Lionel, Original Artwork, Wood
'Dissociating and Tumbling (Surface 4)' - Sculpture, 56x80.5 in ©2016 by Kristopher Lionel - Abstract, abstract-570, abstract, abstract wall art, abstract art, abstract expressionism, abstract sculpture, wood sculpture, abstract painting, oil painting, mixed media artwork, expressive art, color, buy art, gift art, fine art collection, collector, art for sale, wall sculpture, award winning artwork, contemporary artist

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"'Dissociating and Tumbling (Surface 4)'"

Sculpture - Wood | 56x80.5 in

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Sculpture titled "000.1 (Surface 3)" by Kristopher Lionel, Original Artwork, Wood
000.1 (Surface 3) - Sculpture, 47x80.5 in ©2014 by Kristopher Lionel - Abstract, abstract-570, sculpture, wall sculpture, wall art, abstract art, abstract expressionism, abstract sculpture, wood sculpture, painted wood, expressive art, oil painting, abstract painting, fine art, artworks, color field painting

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"000.1 (Surface 3)"

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