C. J. Pyle

	My Marie, 2009 13” x 12” ink, colored pencil, and graphite on cardboard LP record sleeve
	Midnight to Six, 8 x 8.5 inches ink, colored pencil, and graphite on found notebook paper sold
	McKinley’s Delight, 2007-08 12 x 12 inches Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil CJP 1 sold
	Lu, You've got a thing about you, 2007-08 12 x 12 inches Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil CJP 2 sold
	Sugar, 2007-08 12 x 12 inches Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil CJP 3 sold
	C.C. with Hat, 2007-08 12 x 12 inches Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil CJP 4 sold
	My coals are cold, 2007 10 x 9 inches Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil CJP 5
	Doolittle Special, 2007 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil CJP 6
	Flora Dora, 2008 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil on album cover CJP 7 sold
	Von Pleet, 2008 12 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil on album cover CJP 8
	CYANide, 2009 12 ½ x 12 ¼ inches Ink, colored pencil, pencil on cardboard LP Sleeve CJP 9 sold
	Johnny Come Home, 2008 12 ½ x 12 ½ inches Ink, colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve CJP 11
	Dino's Double Dare, 2008 14 x 12 ¼ inches Ink, colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve CJP 12
	Letters Don't Count, 2009 12 ½ x 12 ¼ inches Ink, colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve CJP 13
	Keep The Change, 2007 12 ½ x 12 ¼ inches Ink, colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve CJP 14
	Don't Take Me Alive, 2009 8 x 8 1/2 inches Ink, colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve CJP 16
	I Can Only Give You Everything, 2009 8 x 8 1/2 inches Ink, colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve CJP 17 sold
	Judy's Turn To Cry, 2009 12 x13 inches Ink, colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve CJP 18 sold
	The Last Time Around 2008 12 ¼ x 12 ¼ inches Ink, colored pencil, pencil on cardboard LP sleeve CJP 19 sold
	Le Feel Internationale , 2009 12 ¼ x 24 ¾ inches Ink, colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve CJP 20
	The Audible Strains of Clarence White, 2009 12 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches Ink, colored Pencil, pencil on cardboard LP sleeve CJP 21
	Ruby My Dear , 2009 12 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches Ink, colored pencil, pencil on cardboard LP sleeve CJP 22 sold
C J. Pyle (Christopher John Pyle) was born July 5th, 1956 in Richmond Indiana. I had never seen anything like my woven-knot technique before I developed it, so there was no inspiration for it, really. I just loved the act of drawing and had been drawing consistently since about age 12. I guess if you do something that much over the years you might discover something, and I think that I did. As to how the weave technique with a ball point pen developed? It came out of the rock clubs, where I played from the mid-seventies into the early nineties. As a traveling musician, there'd be down time because of sound checks, breaks, traveling, etc. and I would while away the time perfecting the weave. As a child, I loved the detailed ink work of Basil Wolverton and also loved making rope knots--I tied hundreds of them -- and became fixated on the weave of the rope. So those two inspirations somehow found its way into my personal artwork many years later; they're the foundation for my work. I like making two-color portraits; I don't really know why, I just do. As a kid, drawing faces is what I fixated on. I also find creating an image with limited color much more challenging than one created with many colors. GALLERY SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS: September 2007: THE BLAB! SHOW, Copro Nason Gallery (Bergamot Station), Santa Monica, CA October 2007: THE BLAB! SHOW, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO August 2008: BLAB! Museum Retrospective; Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art; Manhattan, KS September 2008: THE BLAB! SHOW, Copro Nason Gallery (Bergamot Station), Santa Monica, CA June 2009: PRIMAL, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL June 2009: MIDWESTERN BLAB!, A+D Gallery, Chicago , IL October 2009: CJ PYLE, KILROY’S DELIGHT, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL