ARTIST STATEMENT

My art challenges me in ways that I would never expect to love. I work mostly with oil paint, but I like to dabble in found object art and I also have discovered my recent love for the beauty and simplicity of art on paper or fiber. My in­spir­ation can come from some­thing as simple as the shape of a bald head with a fat roll in the back.

When something sparks my creativity I have to paint it. It is on my mind until I paint the subject matter. Creating diff­erent pro­cesses feeds my passion and so does the analytical thinking while I’m working. The joy is in the doing and undoing. Ex­perimental au­thentic artistic freedom is my ob­jective. I know one thing for sure, learn­ing to paint like myself is a mighty task and slow in coming. The quest is ongoing and every stroke a new beginning!

BIOGRAPHY

Chris Marchese Bolmeier is from Omaha and she grew up watching her mother paint. In her youth she was a per­formance artist and traveled the country singing and acting. Then it was a natural trans­ition for her to paint because her artist mother has been a role model for Chris. She att­ended the Scottsdale Art School and Daniel Greene workshop. Although she has benefited from many formal classes, o­bserving her mother paint­ing in her “kitchen” studio has been a pivotal influence. Her foun­dation is well grounded and her roots of the im­press­ionist Scholars of art can be seen in her work. Chris has been painting and creating in diff­erent media all her life, she is a full time artist.