“10 NYC artists 35 and under you should know” Time Out New York By Howard Halle June 24, 2016 The rent may be too damn high in New York, but that hasn’t stopped young artists from flocking to the city; it remains the art capital of the world, after all, with the world’s largest concentration of galleries (from Chelsea to the Lower East Side to the Upper East Side, not to mention Brooklyn and Queens) and art museums (such as the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art), where they all hope to show some day. With studios costing an arm and a leg, the hurdles to success here are formidable, but even so, young artists in New York manage to attract the attention of gallerists, curators and collectors with innovative work. Here are 10 doing just that. Chris Hood Hood’s approach to painting is somewhat unusual because he paints his combination of gestural marks and image fragments on the reverse side of unprimed canvases, leaving viewers with a milky surface created by pigments bleeding through the material—a bit like what you’d see on the back of a used painting tarp. Hood’s technique also recalls 60s colorfield painting, only festooned with doodle-like depictions—of eyes, knives, hearts, and other random items—as well as quotations from Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Together, they bob against their backdrops like carrots in an Expressionistic stew cooked up in a dream.

Chris Hood Courtesy the artist, Lyles & King Gallery, and MIER GALLERY