C. J. Pyle

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

Von Pleet, 2008

12 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches

Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil on album cover

CJP 8

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

 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 

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