Untitled (Household Wrestling Series), 2003
Watercolor and pencil
22 x30”
Value: $1,800
Chris Doyle is a Brooklyn artist who received a BA from Boston College in 1981 and a Masters of Architecture from Harvard in 1985. He practiced architecture with I.M. Pei before shifting to a studio practice focused on painting, video, and public art. In his work, Doyle explores the subjects of public and private spaces, as well as issues of class. His public art projects have received particular acclaim: with Commutable, he covered the steps of the Williamsburg Bridge in gold leaf. Doyle’s work has been exhibited at P.S.1, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, Exit Art, Sculpture Center, among others. He has been awarded grants from New York Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital, Percent for Art, and the Public Art Fund, and was an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony. He was recently commissioned to create a major public art project outside the new arena in downtown Kansas City.
In 2007, Doyle will present a major commissioned video project at the Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield), Artspace, and Real Art Ways (Hartford).
Doyle's new series of large watercolors, of which this piece is a part, connects his interest in public and private space: after taping and photographing family members engaged in choreographed movements borrowed from pro-wrestling championships, he documented them in watercolor.
Doyle's portfolio at Jessica Murray Projects