Engage Ingenuity / Passages / Identifying Time
by Chris Day
Exhibition Dates: Now through September 2025
Location: Post-Security, Terminal 2, Near Gate E34
Chris Day focuses on aspects of civil infrastructure and how its development and maintenance is crucial to sustain health and growth in a city. He relates this to the human body and how it must regenerate itself for health and longevity. Having studied the human form for many years, Day challenged himself to create a composition without the human figure while still maintaining a human presence. In this work, the audience is introduced to familiar places and iconic images of civil infrastructure, such as bridges, overpasses, and bulldozers. Day finds that the process of painting also symbolizes the regeneration that must happen both in infrastructure and within our own bodies. Day builds up and tears down the paint repeatedly until he arrives at what he feels is a harmonious balance between incomplete and complete details. When the viewer places themselves into the painting for at least a moment, they become active in the possibilities of the materials itself.
About the Artist: Chris Day
Chris Day has an MFA in Fine Arts from Fontbonne University. He is currently an Assistant Professor for St. Louis Community College Florissant Valley.
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