Chris Leathers lives and works in East Hampton, Long Island, NY. and earned a degree in paiting from the Rhode Island School of Design.

His work grapples with two main themes: Existance, through the veils of consciousness, using a lack of recognizable imagery.. and more recently with the emotional polarity of joy and sorrow... redemption and failure.

His first daughters name is Maya, which means to him: "The things of illusion through which infinity is grasped". And it is this idea of an infinite boiling dream-scape which lays unseen beneath reality, which drives a major philosophy of his work.

"It is conceivable in these paintings that matter emanates from imagination, and imagination echoes out from matter, in a paradox of self perpetuating creation loops"

His work is also a struggle with self loathing, and grapples with the concept of failure and redemption. In some work, happiness wins and hope is born. In other works, the outcome is bleak.. Emotions that do not escape the abyss and emotions that do. What is allowed to be felt, by a person, and an artist, in a life that balances failure and regret, with greatness and the well spring of eternal renewal.