ARTIST'S STATEMENT Christopher Wynter's paintings and sculpture combine non-representational and subtle representational images in abstract compositions which create an introspective environment, stressing the interaction of these elements as symbolic forces. The shapes and images are evolved from personal ideograms, and various cultural symbols and altar structures. The arrangement and interaction of the forms is an evocative metaphor for the various tensions and dynamics created by individual and collective social hierarchies, particularly as viewed through the African-American experience: stratification, exclusion, containment, isolation, and movement. Simultaneously the combination of images and the space they create may evoke those moments where individual or collective aspirations and awareness transcend the weight of social structures and history.
Mr. Wynter's work has been exhibited in the United States, Germany, the Dominican Republic, and Cote d'Ivoire. His work is in museum, corporate and private collections in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and Cote d'Ivoire, as well as public commisions for the cities of New York and New London, US.
Mr. Wynter has received grants working with traditional artists in West Africa and the Dominican Republic, and looks forward to an upcoming project with the Ainu people of Hokkaido, Japan.
