At its core, Christopher Hines' painting examines the varying states of the human condition through a personal and distorted lens that is reflective of his own experience as an emotional being, thinker, traveler, and artist. Balanced between pure abstraction of concept and representational painting based in the natural world, his paintings often feature human figures stripped of traditional features such as facial expression or skin tone, and instead filled with flowing patterns of light and movement, posed evocatively against abstract fields that explore the balance between linear force and circular energy. The conceptual examination of this balance between opposing forces is a depiction of the constant battle to find meaning in a world that, to the artist, too often appears without. However, for Hines to find true meaning in life is to stay on this search, and his paintings stand as documents of this search.
Hines identifies artistically in the modernist tradition, and takes influence from his forebears in painting, sculpture, philosophy, and poetry, along with the improvisational nature of jazz, energy and attitude of rock and roll, and the compositional structure of orchestral music. His painting is a physical synthesis of these influences, seen through his eyes and guided by his experience - with paint, brush, and surface acting as intermediaries.
Born in New Orleans in 1990, Hines received an education in the Arts and Humanities, and is a self-taught painter and musician. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.