Chris Vierra – chrisvierraart.com

Color Compositions

Work based on colors from memories, places, or situations, designed with balance and geometry.

Artist Statement

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Influence

48″ x 36″ x 2″

Oil on canvas, 2024

Eight

30″ x 30″ x 2″

Oil on canvas, 2024

Binds

36″ x 36″ x 2″

Oil on canvas, 2024

Breathe

20″ x 20″ x 2″

Oil on canvas, 2024 – SOLD

Bell Tower

20″ x 20″ x 2″

Oil on canvas, 2024 – SOLD

Constellation

20″ diameter 1″ depth

Oil on canvas, 2024

Unexpected Outcomes (1)

30″ x 24″ x 2″

Oil on canvas, 2024

Unexpected Outcomes (2)

30″ x 24″ x 2″

Oil on canvas, 2024

Accidental

24″ x 24″ x2″

Oil on canvas, 2024

Melting Pot

30″ x 30″ x 2″

Oil on canvas, 2024

Beginnings

28″ x 22″ x 1″

Oil on canvas, 2023

Light on

18″ x 24″ x 1″

Oil on canvas, 2024 – SOLD

Warmth

24″ x 36″ x 1″

Oil on canvas, 2024

Nuclear Grans

30″ x 30″ x 1″

Oil on canvas, 2023

HTX Smash

22″ x 28″ x 2″

Oil on canvas, 2023

Tortuga Pines

22″ x 28″ x 1″

Oil on canvas, 2023 – SOLD

Santa Fe Suns

28″ x 22″ x 1″

Oil on canvas, 2023

Rise

20″ x 20″ x 1″

Oil on canvas, 2023 – SOLD

Transparency

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Miami

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Windy City Winter

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Untitled

17″ x 13″ calligraph print on paper 1/1, 2023

Untitled

17″ x 13″ calligraph print on paper 1/1, 2023

Untitled

17″ x 13″ calligraph print on paper 1/1, 2023

Defining Style

24″ x 18″ acrylic on paper, 2022

Warms

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Cools

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

After

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Compliments

acrylic on paper, 2022 – SOLD

Artist Statement

Chris Vierra is a Houston-based oil painter whose hard-edged geometric abstractions serve as layered political commentaries. Concealed within patterns and vibrant color play, her work interrogates identity politics, the persistence of outdated gender norms, and the mechanisms of control exercised by dominant ideologies. In a time when AI blurs the line between originality and replication, Vierra’s commitment to freehand execution introduces intentional imperfections: visual vibrations that activate the canvas and resist digital erasure.

Rooted in personal experience and shaped by life lived across multiple states and countries, Vierra’s work is driven by a belief that cultural and ideological differences need not divide but can transform. Attracted positive reinvention of self, systems, and rules, ancient signs of femininity, masculinity, power, and division are re-contextualized, woven into abstract compositions that critique the regressive resurgence of traditional roles and the systemic marginalization of women and gender-diverse individuals.

Each piece is meticulously planned yet organically rendered, reflecting a dynamic tension between control and freedom—both in form and concept. Vierra’s paintings invite viewers to question inherited definitions of identity and to see abstraction not as escape, but as a medium for critical engagement and social dialogue.

Exhibitions

2024 Smell, Glassell Kinder Morgan Exhibition, Kinder Morgan Building, Houston, TX

2024 Touch, Glassell Kinder Morgan Exhibition, Kinder Morgan Building, Houston, TX

2024 Vision, Glassell Kinder Morgan Exhibition, Kinder Morgan Building, Houston, TX

2023 Semester Student Work, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX