CURRENT EXHIBITIONs

christopher schade: strange land

EXHIBITION DATES: october 28 - november 22, 2025

RECEPTION: Thursday, november 6, 5 - 8 pm

The Painting Center is pleased to present Strange Land, a solo exhibition by Christopher Schade in the Main Gallery and Project Room. For his second solo exhibition, Christopher Schade will be exhibiting works from two interrelated series: Perceived Landscapes and Envisaged Landscapes. The exhibition will include 49 oil paintings, graphite drawings, and scratchboard pieces made over the course of 18 years (2007-2025). Grounded in observation, Schade’s Perceived Landscapes are ambiguous and from a shared reality. Using these paintings as a source, he then makes his Envisaged Landscapes, which become sensory paradoxes where the known is subverted into the unknown. For the past twenty years, he has been exploring phenomenology, psychology, and perception. The central questions being: what assumptions do we make about reality, and how accurate are these? How do we understand or misunderstand things, situations, and other people, and what can we agree on as a consensus reality? These questions raise issues surrounding translation and language of communication, including pictorial conventions, culturally specific conceptual differences, the instability and invention of memory, and the currently fluid nature of agreed-upon truth in technology and politics.

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