Recent Works
Black Mickey
Cedar Bar
2nd Floor Plan
Red, White and Black / Wall Paintings
War Paint
Sculptures

My work develops from the gritty urban environment in which I reside. The intense need to record our current events drives me to employ materials and processes of mass production. Through the use of my own hand and or mark making in these practices, I exemplify man’s need to still be involved in art and not to be excluded by technical advances.

The current series of paintings entitled “Red, White and Black” concerns itself with limitations set by society and the boundaries or walls that are set in place when one does not consider all that has come before. The series consists of a limited palette and metaphorically mimics the problems of a suppressive society and a dictatorship.

Through the use of printed matter, repetition, political slogans, media and literarary influences an ironic narrative is created. Image and words become compartmentalized by the use of framing and cropping. When repetition is used it is as a static component. The image has lost all value and meaning and needs to be re-enforced in order to regain its significance.

Mass production has created a society of consumers with an appetite for excess, the paintings are full of excess; words printed and painted over and over until almost all coherence is lost. What remains are fragments like small soundbytes that are sampled from songs and cast into a new work. A cut and paste, an oleo of cultural media collected and recast on the canvas. My work is that of a history painter and there may be confusion contained within the framework, but these are confusing times.
May 2007
My concerns are growing on the subject of class struggle, the public has been hypnotized by comfort and material goods. We see our daily lives upended by an absence of soul and an over abundance of mass produced concrete tombs for the upper class. What is left for the people? Our tax dollars are squandered to repair a consumerist system beyond repair and that the average human is priced out of. Where are the social services programs to enrichen the lives of the workers? What has happened to the intellectuals? Now is the time to realize that the spectacle is the affirmation of societal and cultural death. That we the people are no longer people, but just a pre-assisgned numerical afterthought in the global game of monopoly. We are now, only grasping for our last breath to utter our history, not a manufactured one.
These wall paintings are a reflection of the street, of life; peoples lives, what they see on their daily journey at the lowest common juncture of man and reality; the ground level. They are a documentation and a protest (all at once) of the burdening of all the bourgeois to steam roll the working people and bury us under the bureaucracy of the machine. We can paint, poster, write, graffiti and protest, we can undermine their stability and comfort and return them to the level of the people. We must destroy all the cathedrals and release the people from the servitude of consumerism.
April 2010

Group Exhibitions 2010 -

50/50 Brooklyn Artists Gym. Brooklyn NY 2011
T.O.A.S.T. Church Street School, NY, NY 2011
Beast Brooklyn Artists Gym. Brooklyn NY 2011
Members Salon, OIA NY at The New York Law School NY, NY 2011
Paint. OIA NY at The New York Law School NY, NY 2011
Bayside Historical Society, 10th Annual Exhibition. Fort Totten, N.Y. 2011
$199 show, OIA, NY Law School. 2010
Gentrified, Brooklyn Artists Gym. Brooklyn NY 2010
Aspects of the City, OIA NY at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY 2010
Summer Salon, OIA-NY at The New York Law School, New York, NY 2010
NYSS at Patton Boggs, NY, NY 2010
Aspects of the City, OIA NY at The New York Law School, New York, NY 2010
Future Forward, BECA Gallery, New Orleans, LA. 2010
Bayside Historical Society, 9th Annual Exhibition. Fort Totten, N.Y. 2010
BECA Foundation. Future Forward, New Orleans, LA. 2010
Solo/Two person Exhibitions

Wall paintings Chris Esposito and Amber Dubois. AES Gallery, L.I.C., NY 2009
Future Now, Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery, BayShore N.Y. 2006
Down Here on the Ground, Thesis Exhibition, ASL Gallery, LIU Brookville, NY 2004
On/Off the Wall, C. W. Post Sculpture Building Gallery. 2004

Group Exhibitions 2002 - 2009

Bayside Historical Society, 9th Annual. Fort Totten, NY. 2009
New York Studio School benefit auction NY, NY 2008
Bayside Historical Society, 8th Annual Summer Exhibition, Fort Totten, NY. 2008
Masur Museum, 35th Juried Competition, Monroe, LA. 2008
Open Competition, NCC Firehouse Gallery. 2008
Eva’s Restaurant, NYSS at Eva’s, NY, NY. 2008
New York Studio School Benefit Auction. NY, NY. 2007
Eva’s Restaurant, Group Show, NY, NY. 2007
Open Competition, NCC Firehouse Gallery. 2007
Works in Progress Show, Hamilton Hall, University of the Arts, Phila., PA. 2006
Faculty/Alumni Connections, Hutchins Gallery, Brookville, NY. 2005
Regeneration, Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery, Bay Shore, NY. 2005
Light Effects, NCC Firehouse Gallery, Award of Excellence 2004
Blue Heart, Curated by Ray Neufeld, C. W. Post Sculpture Building Gallery. 2003
Small Works, NCC Firehouse Gallery. 2003
Student Art Exhibition, NCC Firehouse Gallery, Award of Excellence. 2003
Student Art Exhibition, NCC Firehouse Gallery. 2002
Chris Esposito was born and resides in New York City.
Before becoming fully engaged in the visual arts he was a member of numerous bands notably The Arturos and Beyond Reach.
The latter of which recorded and never finished nor released it first album Snakedancing.
An early career in the graphic arts and an interest in printmaking finally gave into painting.
Mostly self taught with some early mentoring from older colleagues
He later earned a BFA from Long island University and was formerly the Studio and Facilities Manager at The New York Studio School and is currently at The Church Street School for Music and Art.

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Songs 1-7 recorded 1988/89
Chris Esposito Guitar and vocals
Andrew Taylor Guitar and vocals
Giovanni Fusco Drums, Percussion and Piano
Rob Rivera Bass
Rick Lussier Piano on Restless

Songs 8 & 9 recorded 2001
Chris Esposito Guitar and vocals
Andrew Taylor Guitar
Mike Sawaya Drums

All songs written and copyrighted Chris Esposito