CHRIS BRYANT - #4
Paradise Productions
5115 Birch St
email: troibirch@yahoo.com
www.chrisbryant.net
paintings, ceramics, assemblages, photographs
Chris Bryant was raised in France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Her first sale of a painting occurred when she was 13, painting a landscape in a park. She began her career in Michigan working as a photojournalist for The Escanaba Daily Press at age 14. Her first assignments included photographing Robert Kennedy and capturing aerial images of paper mills with a six pound camera shooting 4x5 negatives. She later received a four-year Honors Scholarship which led to a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art. Graduating Summa Cum Laude, Bryant was awarded a Graduate Fellowship to Columbia University, where she was the first woman to receive a Master of Fine Arts Degree with Honors in Film/Video Directing.
In 1975, she formed her own company with her first clients being Sesame Street and ABC Television. Innovative animation techniques using clay, food, gravel, live worms and oil paint led to her winning Gold and Silver Medals at the International Film Festival in New York City.
Chris relocated her photography and video production business, Paradise Productions, from Laguna Beach, California to Astoria, Oregon in 1994 and purchased her current property, 5115 Birch Street. Located across the street from the Columbia River, it was originally built as a saloon in 1897.
Currently her art can be seen in Astoria at Luminari Arts, WineKraft Wine Bar, the Liberty Theatre, Northwest Lending, Paradise Gallery, and on her website www.chrisbryant.net. Her email is troibirch@yahoo.com
Artist's Statement:
Chris’ open studio will feature paintings, assemblages, ceramic masks, and photographs from her recent trips to South America, Cuba and Alaska. An ongoing slideshow of her images will be playing on a large screen. Also during the open studio, Chris will be painting in her impressionistic style.
‘’Being an artist is a wonderful opportunity and I am enchanted with Astoria as a place to live and work. Our beautiful Northwestern vistas inspire me, as do foreign scenes like Argentinian tango dancers, Venetian canals, Greek towns and the Marquesan Islands. Sometimes listening to music will inspire a painting. Dreams often serve as inspiration for my art. Experimentation is the key to keeping my images fresh.”
‘’One memorable commission was a 40-inch oil painting of Disney’s first cruise ship, the Disney Magic, painted in Venice, Italy where the ship was being constructed. A favorite commissioned mural was an impressionistic landscape with rocks, ocean, driftwood, grasses, trees, and birds. It was painted last October for an Astoria couple on their living room wall. The mural measured 19 feet wide by 8 feet high.“
‘’The love of photography and painting have continued throughout my life with favorite subjects being landscapes, boats, vintage cars, musicians, dancers, and wildlife. I feel so fortunate to have art as a lifelong passion.”
Paradise Productions
5115 Birch St
email: troibirch@yahoo.com
www.chrisbryant.net
paintings, ceramics, assemblages, photographs
Chris Bryant was raised in France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Her first sale of a painting occurred when she was 13, painting a landscape in a park. She began her career in Michigan working as a photojournalist for The Escanaba Daily Press at age 14. Her first assignments included photographing Robert Kennedy and capturing aerial images of paper mills with a six pound camera shooting 4x5 negatives. She later received a four-year Honors Scholarship which led to a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art. Graduating Summa Cum Laude, Bryant was awarded a Graduate Fellowship to Columbia University, where she was the first woman to receive a Master of Fine Arts Degree with Honors in Film/Video Directing.
In 1975, she formed her own company with her first clients being Sesame Street and ABC Television. Innovative animation techniques using clay, food, gravel, live worms and oil paint led to her winning Gold and Silver Medals at the International Film Festival in New York City.
Chris relocated her photography and video production business, Paradise Productions, from Laguna Beach, California to Astoria, Oregon in 1994 and purchased her current property, 5115 Birch Street. Located across the street from the Columbia River, it was originally built as a saloon in 1897.
Currently her art can be seen in Astoria at Luminari Arts, WineKraft Wine Bar, the Liberty Theatre, Northwest Lending, Paradise Gallery, and on her website www.chrisbryant.net. Her email is troibirch@yahoo.com
Artist's Statement:
Chris’ open studio will feature paintings, assemblages, ceramic masks, and photographs from her recent trips to South America, Cuba and Alaska. An ongoing slideshow of her images will be playing on a large screen. Also during the open studio, Chris will be painting in her impressionistic style.
‘’Being an artist is a wonderful opportunity and I am enchanted with Astoria as a place to live and work. Our beautiful Northwestern vistas inspire me, as do foreign scenes like Argentinian tango dancers, Venetian canals, Greek towns and the Marquesan Islands. Sometimes listening to music will inspire a painting. Dreams often serve as inspiration for my art. Experimentation is the key to keeping my images fresh.”
‘’One memorable commission was a 40-inch oil painting of Disney’s first cruise ship, the Disney Magic, painted in Venice, Italy where the ship was being constructed. A favorite commissioned mural was an impressionistic landscape with rocks, ocean, driftwood, grasses, trees, and birds. It was painted last October for an Astoria couple on their living room wall. The mural measured 19 feet wide by 8 feet high.“
‘’The love of photography and painting have continued throughout my life with favorite subjects being landscapes, boats, vintage cars, musicians, dancers, and wildlife. I feel so fortunate to have art as a lifelong passion.”
Awakening the Dream