Born 1962, Van Nuys, CA
Lives and works in Laguna Beach, CA
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Newport Beach, CA - Kennedy Contemporary
Mill Valley, CA - Seager Gray Gallery
Park City, UT - Julie Nester Gallery
Glencoe, IL - Anne Loucks Gallery
EDUCATION
1987, California Community Colleges, Instructor Credential
1986, MFA California State University, Fullerton
1984, BA California State University, Fullerton
EXHIBITIONS
2023Something Searched For, Just Out of Reach, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2022
24 x 24, Group Exhibition at Kennedy Contemporary, CAELEMENTAL, Kennedy Contemporary, Newport Beach
2018And Another Thing, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley
2017
Solo Exhibition, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2016Gwaltney, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
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2015
Solo Exhibition, Cadogan Contemporary, London, England
Solo Exhibition, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2014Time Is…, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Group Exhibition, Tria Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2013
Solo Exhibition, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Solo Exhibition, Tria Gallery, Chelsea, NYPostcards, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Group Exhibition, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Group Exhibition,
Five, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT
2012
Solo Exhibition, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Solo Exhibition, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Aqua Art Miami with Seager Gray Gallery
Group Exhibition, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Group Exhibition,
Figures in Abstract, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2011
Solo Exhibition, Tria Gallery, New York, NY
Solo Exhibition, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
2010Shadow and Absence, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2009
Solo Exhibition, Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
Solo Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Group Exhibition,
Figurative, Peter Blake / LA Louvre, Laguna Beach, CA
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2008
Solo Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2007
Solo Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Solo Exhibition, Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Group Exhibition,
Figurative, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2006
Solo Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Solo Exhibition, Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2005
Solo Exhibition, Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Group Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2004
Solo Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Solo Exhibition, Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2003
Solo Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Solo Exhibition, Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Group Exhibition,
Summer Show, Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2002
Solo Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Solo Exhibition, Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2001
Solo Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Solo Exhibition, Robert Green Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
SELECT REVIEWS
Chris Gwaltney: What is Left is What is Needed
Essay by John Seed, Art Writer
Artist Chris Gwaltney, who began his career painting figures, has recently returned to abstraction for his solo exhibition ELEMENTAL. Although a longtime admirer of Bay Area Figurative art—Gwaltney treasures a watercolor nude by Nathan Oliveira that hangs in his bedroom—he has recently observed that abstraction opens up a deeper engagement with his audience. “Abstraction demands more from the viewer,” he explains. “Because the image doesn’t supply the story, the viewer is willing to look within and say, ‘I don’t know why I like this, but I do.’” Gwaltney finds it satisfying when his viewers feel free to respond to his abstract paintings on an emotional level. In fact, Gwaltney considers it his primary job as an artist to deliver paintings that transmit emotions. (READ MORE)
Chris Gwaltney World
By Bolton Colburn, Former Director Laguna Art Museum
Independent Curator
Literally stepping off into abstraction, the figure in Chris Gwaltney’s painting Up, More Up performs a Kafkaesque metamorphosis as it leaves the diving board, with one leg flattening into a mere black shape. The physical weight of the figure is absorbed and counterbalanced by this abutting color-shape, an apt visual metaphor for the transition from one state to another, and of the thin line that constitutes the separation between being and not being. (READ MORE)