Christopher Hocking
Paintings
January 20-July 31, 2026
On view Monday-Friday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, and during all public events and performances. (The Performing Arts Center is closed for all University holidays.)
About the Artist
Christopher Hocking is an associate professor of painting and drawing at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in drawing and painting, fostering a collaborative learning environment. His painterly language explores a recombinant figural abstraction that engages form, space, and movement. Imagery draws from diverse sources: popular media, art history, science, toys, fashion, folk culture, children’s books, fables, memory, and literature. Guided by sensation, intuition, and feeling, these images slip between abstraction and representation, triggering associations, contradictions, and multiple narrative possibilities.