Chris Wagner builds bodies of work where color carries the message—less as decoration and more as an emotional system. He moves between abstract and realistic approaches, insisting that the same core idea holds in both: color behaves like a mood that can shift the viewer’s experience of form.
Wagner describes a lifelong practice of testing how different color effects land on the eye and in the mind. Rather than treating color as a fixed style, he treats it as responsive material, something that changes meaning depending on context and the medium in use. The result is work where color doesn’t sit on top of imagery—it drives what the image becomes.
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