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chrissantamaria.bsky.social
Chris Santa Maria
@chrissantamaria.bsky.social
visual artist (paper collages + watercolor monotypes) nature/culture/science/politics, director of Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Weyl, cactuses

inquiries: [email protected]

www.chrissantamaria.com
ig+tt: @chrisantamaria
If you're going to be in Miami for Art Basel please swing by INK to see my brand new watercolor monotypes at PS Marlowe (and some recent paper collages in the same fair at Jim Kempner Fine Art)

INK Miami Art Fair
December 3 - 7
Pulp Party: December 4, 7-9pm
Suites of Dorchester
1850 Collins Avenue
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
DIAL-A-POEM
+1(917)994-8949
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 AM
moved the cactuses off the radiator for rearrangement, a winter tradition here in brooklyn
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
took the monkeys to see DREAMWORLD: SURREALISM AT 100 @philamuseum.bsky.social (it's so great, just fantastic!) and sketched Max Ernst's The Barbarians in front of The Triumph of Surrealism (both paintings from 1937)
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
and just look at the fractals in this leaf!
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
niece and nephew painted my nails then we hiked down to devil's pool in wissahickon valley park and hounded a ton of beautiful mica / garnet specimens
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"Field 30" (2023)
paper collage on museum board
12 x 8 inches
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
i like it from the side
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
new profile pic
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
come down to duff's in south williamsburg for a proper death metal ass kicking
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
this is the second time her name has popped up today, ty 🌬🚬😮
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
the Lever House lobby has a really sweet Claes Oldenburg installation right now, with numerous tomes on his work strewn about, Gil Evans playing in the background

the cardboard toothbrush object into monument maquette and squeezed paint tube have my heart
November 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
under this denizen of inequity
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
vibing with Maurizio Cattelan's America (2016)
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
the vibe, comrade Breton
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
need a new artist 'headshot' and this one where I'm accidentally closing my eyes is my fav
November 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
i love the way this ginko tree looks in the morning
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Eric N. Mack
Not magic or nor madness, Just the elements I styled, 2023
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
throwback to this painting i made of condoleezza rice, karl rove, dick cheney, donald rumsfeld, and paul wolfowitz as terrorists, logos from corporations that profited off the war, w. taking communion, a self-portrait (beheaded), bombs on bombs, etc.

Fragile, 2003
oil on wooden crate
48 x 32 inches
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
painted leaves

"Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.”

Thoreau, 1862
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
luv 2 drop off work w/ my framer #papercollage #art
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
darling, it's better down where it's wetter (take it from meeee)
November 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
the reveal:
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM