CHRIS CRITES: American Psycho - Financial Terrorists.
For over a decade, Chris Crites has been known for his hand painted four and five-color portraits of vintage mug shots that are meticulously rendered on brown paper bags.
In collaboration with 360SEE, Crites has been known to stray from mid-century mug shot subjects and paint portraits of contemporary high-profile criminals. As a follow up to his highly publicized Pay-To-Play series, featuring portraits of disgraced former Illinois Governors and a political fundraiser, Crites has now examined the corruption in the financial sector with the series American Psycho - Financial Terrorists.
This new series consists of (4) 4x5” hand painted, framed, portraits of artist-accused financial terrorists:
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke; CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein; former CEO of Goldman Sachs, former CEO of MF Global, former US Senator, and former Governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine; and Chairman, President, and Chief Executive of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon.
ERIC BESSEL - I'LL BE YOUR FATHER features (15) bacterial portraits documenting his year as a Brooklyn apartment Kombucha farmer.