Christopher Umana

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Christopher Umana
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Christopher Umana is an illustrator and native of Southern California who now resides in Northern Nevada. His work depicts everyday occurrences from the monumental to the mundane. Every moment in one’s life is a piece of a puzzle that should always call attention to itself regardless of its importance or impact.

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Biography:

Christopher Umana is an illustrator and native of Southern California who now resides in Northern Nevada. His work depicts everyday occurrences from the monumental to the mundane. Every moment in one’s life is a piece of a puzzle that should always call attention to itself regardless of its importance or impact.

Everything we do has relevance and an effect on ourselves and those around us. Umana uses anthropomorphic figures as representations of the people he encounters everyday. He believes there is a connection between people, animals, and insects. He also uses flora and fauna in his work to represent the personality traits of people and how they react and adapt to their lives and surroundings.” His recent work focuses on personal topics such as family life and death in correlation with different cultural reactions and superstitions related to these subjects.

Umana has shown extensively across the United States and Europe and is in private collections worldwide. He has also done editorial and commercial illustration. He draws inspiration from the importance of drawing, and the emotional impact you can create through expressions. This is why Umana’s characters have a tightly “drawn” quality on top of the loose paint. This is his homage to the comic artists who influenced him growing up. It is also a tribute to the expressive and raw style he remembers from preschool fingerpainting.

Cultural
Inspiration:

All cultures are an inspiration to me. I find it fascinating to compare and contrast cultural reactions and superstitions in regards to life and death, and appropriate them into my paintings.
Artistic
Inspiration:

Animal and human behavior. Random happenings and connections made through coincidence. Artists like Robert Crumb, Heinrich Kley, John James Audobon, Jerome Witkin, Alex Gross, to name a few...
Birth Place: California
Current Residence: Nevada
Education: 2003 BFA Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Press & Publications: Lowbrow Tarot Project, La Luz de Jesus Master's Exhibition book, Los Angeles Journal, LA.COM, CMYK magazine.
Genre: Illustration, Low Brow, and Mixed Media
TTP Debut: May 24, 2011

Upcoming Events

  • 07.06.2013 - 07.31.2013
    423West Gallery in Los Angeles, CA

    CAJA- a group exhibition about the mysteries that reside within the box. Curated by Christopher Umana and Jennifer Mullins

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  • 05.13.2011 - 07.31.2011
    Sacred Machine Museum, Tucson AZ

    Beyond The Sacred Music and Arts Festival

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  • 07.09.2011 - 08.06.2011
    Distinction Gallery, Escondido, CA

    "Anicomically Correct"

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  • 07.30.2011 - 08.31.2011
    POP Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

    "Curiosities"

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  • 10.07.2011 - 11.04.2011
    La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Hollywood CA

    25th Anniversary Masters Exhibition

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