Chris Ballantyne is a printmaker at Paulson Bott Press. Ballantyne uses suburban and industrial images to represent the absurd and unlikely. Using common architecture (buildings, fences, pools, parking lots, etc.), Ballantyne isolates these images onto single, flat fields of color. The simplicity of Chris Ballantyne's work allows such simple architectural and homely images to take on a full new meaning as they reduce down to their own simple form. They stand alone without the help of other common objects that add to their meaning, and so they function solely on the basis of their existence.
Ballantyne received his MFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been featured in the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Museum of Modern Art.
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