CHRIS CINQUE

Respiration

For many of us, breathing is affected by personal trauma, police brutality, systemic racism, COVID 19, horrific forest fires, governmental incompetence, and political dysfunction. This series attempts to address ways of breathing through such cataclysms.

Respiration V

“Bury Me in the NIght Sky” 40” x 32” Collaged painting on unstretched canvas 2020

Respiration IV

“Giotto’s Angels” 37” x 32” Collaged painting on unstretched canvas 2020

Respiration III

Respiration III

“Underneath” 76” x 64 ½” Collaged painting on unstretched canvas 2020

Respiration II

“A History of the World” 34” x 26” Collaged painting on unstretched canvas 2020

Respiration I

“Emanation” 38” x 30 ¾” Collaged painting on unstretched canvas 2020

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Respiration I

M Series

Who was Giorgio Morandi? According to Karen Wilken, his work embodied “material and emotional density, frontality, self-sufficiency, and unpretentiousness”. This series investigates what those words mean to me.

M Series 4

12” X 12” x 1 ½” Painted collage on canvas 2020

M Series 1

12” x 12” x 1 ½” Painted collage on canvas 2020

M Series 2

12” X 12” x 1 ½” Painted collage on canvas 2020

M Series 8

12” X 12” x 1 ½” Painted collage on canvas 2020

M Series 3

12” X 12” x 1 ½” Painted collage on canvas 2020

M Series 5

12” X 12” x 1 ½” Painted collage on canvas 2020

M Series 6

12” X 12” x 1 ½” Painted collage on canvas 2020

M Series 7

12” X 12” x 1 ½” Painted collage on canvas 2020

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Lockport

“One act of faith has remained a constant from paleolithic times to cubism, from Tintoretto to Rothko: that the visible contained hidden secrets, that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance. Thus paintings were there to reveal a presence behind an appearance—be it that of a Madonna, a tree, or simply, the light that soaks through a red.” John Berger

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Mixed Media Collage on Canvas 30” x 10” 2019

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Mixed Media Collage on Canvas 24” x 8” 2019

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Mixed Media Collage on Canvas 30” x 10” 2019

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Mixed Media Collage on Canvas 30” x 10” 2019

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Mixed Media Collage on Canvas 24” x 8” 2019

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Mixed Media Collage on Canvas 36” x 12” 2019

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KIN

My upcoming 2025 exhibit consists of a new series of drawing collages. My LGBTQ+ friends serve as models. The long history of portraiture has rarely if ever included my people. This is my attempt to widen the margins of inclusion.