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Twin Falls
2009
11 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches
Pencil, colored pencil, pen on found paper
CJP 23
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CJP
34-
Ginger
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil and collage on verso of book cover
16 x
13 1/2 inches
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CJP 35
Melody
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of LP album cover
12 1/2
x 12 1/4 inches
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CJP 36
Manalishi
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of LP album cover
12 1/2
x 12 1/2 inches
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CJP 37
DeCapo
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of LP album cover
12 1/2
x 12 1/4 inches
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CJP 38
Three Card Molly
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of book cover
11 1/4
x 8 inches
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CJP 39
Day-Z
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of coated cardboard
11 1/4
x 17 1/4
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CJP 40
LaSalle & DeQuincy
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of LP album cover
11 1/4
x 11 1/4 inches
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CJP 41
Saint Jack
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of LP album cover
12 1/4
x 13 1/4 inches
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CJP 42
What's Up? That's It!
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of LP album cover
12 1/2
x 12 3/4 inches
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CJP 43
Passing Fancy
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of LP album cover
12 x
12 1/2 inches
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CJP 44
Yellow Jacket
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of LP album cover
13 1/2
x 12 1/2 inches
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CJP 45
Never You Mind
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of LP album cover
12 1/2
x 12 1/2 inches
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CJP 46
Candi Jo You Know, You Know
2011
Pencil, pen, colored pencil on verso of LP album cover
12 1/2
x 12 inches
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My coals are cold,
2007
10 x 9 inches
Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil
CJP 5
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Doolittle Special,
2007
8 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches
Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil
CJP 6
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Von Pleet,
2008
12 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches
Ballpoint pen, pencil and colored pencil on album cover
CJP 8
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Johnny Come Home, 2008
12 ½ x 12
½ inches
Ink,
colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve
CJP
11
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Dino's Double Dare,
2008
14 x 12 ¼
inches
Ink,
colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve
CJP
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Letters Don't Count, 2009
12 ½ x 12
¼ inches
Ink,
colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve
CJP
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Keep The Change, 2007
12 ½ x 12
¼ inches
Ink,
colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve
CJP
14
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Don't Take Me Alive, 2009
8 x 8 1/2 inches
Ink,
colored pencil, pencil on Cardboard LP sleeve
CJP 16 |
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Le Feel Internationale ,
2009
12 ¼ x 24 ¾ inches
Ink, colored pencil, pencil on
Cardboard LP sleeve
CJP 20
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The Audible Strains of Clarence White,
2009
12 ¾ x 9 ¾
inches Ink, colored Pencil, pencil on cardboard LP sleeve
CJP
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CJ 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:
March 3-May
25, 2012: Forever Young, Good News Only, Chicago, IL
June 23-Aug 19, 2011: Twisted, C.J.Pyle and Scott
Ogden, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, NY
Sept 10-Dec 30, 2010:
Forget me NOT, self taught portraits, Intuit- The Center for
Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago IL
November
2011: CJ Pyle, Skin Deep, New Drawings, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
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
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