
Chris Lux
June 14 - July 20, 2025
House of Seiko | Los Angeles
4850 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Opening reception:
Saturday, June 14, 2025
6:00 - 9:00 pm
(Part II):
House of Seiko | San Francisco
Saturday, June 21, 2025
5:00 - 8:00 pm
Inquiries: cole@houseofseiko.info
Chris Lux | born 1980, San Francisco, CA, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
House of Seiko is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Chris Lux (b. 1980 in San Francisco) to inaugurate the gallery’s new Los Angeles location. A second part of Chris Lux’s exhibition will open at our San Francisco location on Saturday, June 21, 2025, from 5:00 - 8:00 pm. This show will run concurrently with his exhibition in Los Angeles and will be on view through July 20th during our regular business hours
The paintings on view are made through a process of actual and metaphorical gleaning. Merging personal and shared histories, Lux layers figuration with transparent veils of color, graceful lines in oil, and decorative flora, largely rendered on found, discarded fabric. Motifs borrowed from sources such as fin de siècle textile design, Wiener Werkstätte postcards, and Nabi printmaking commingle with personal photographs of young punks and artists from the late 1990s and invented figures. While earlier work was characterized by bold linework, Lux’s newest paintings adopt a more nuanced and painterly approach, driven by material and process rather than straightforward image-making.
Painted on chromic red reflective fabric, Ellen Speed depicts a sleeping figure resting across a ground of graphic floral patterning recalling Viennese printmaking. A rectangular transparent wash of spray paint creates a frame of negative space at the edges, while figures dance across the dreaming head of the subject, rendered like a finger drawing in foggy glass. In other paintings, subjects pulled from the artist’s archive of adolescent photographs are foregrounded on commercially printed fabric, which peaks through the negative spaces of eye sockets and mouths, creating a discordant effect.
The found fabrics–culled from garage sales and thrift shops–each contain their own unknown origin, and are selected for qualities which are impossible to render with paint, including shimmer, iridescence, and industrially produced patterning. An inherent tenet of these recent works is the phenomenological quality of fabric that catches and reflects light, which is not possible to experience in photographic documentation alone. Also included are two framed paintings on vintage book covers, reinforcing the objecthood and dimensional presence of all of the works on view.

Chris Lux
Life in a Dead End Town, (Theres Nothing Here to Keep Me), 2024
oil, flashe, and graphite
on found fabric
48” x 50” x 1 1/2”

Chris Lux
Ellen Speed, 2025
oil, flashe, and graphite
on found fabric
48” x 32” x 1”

Chris Lux
Destroying My Room, (Daniel and Doug), 2025
oil, flashe, and graphite
on found fabric
60” x 58” x 1 1/2”

Chris Lux
Daniel at the Kitchen Table, 2025
oil, flashe, and graphite
on found fabric
38” x 40” x 1”
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