Chris Pelletiere - About

Chris Pelletiere's artwork spanned well over fifty years, so this page offers a brief overview of a long and full career. He was a New York-based artist whose work moved freely between painting, collage, drawing, printmaking, comics, illustration, and visual storytelling. He was raised in Brooklyn, and studied art in NYC: first, painting and drawing at the Art Student's League, then at The New York Studio School. Later he studied printmaking at Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop and Pratt Graphics Center.

His work is held in institutional collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, The National Gallery of Art, The New York Transit Museum, and Bank of New York. Chris received a 2008 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, and exhibited his work at numerous galleries, with solo shows at the New York Transit Museum, NYC, Romano Gallery, Blair Academy, NJ, and Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC, where he was a member for many years. In his early days, his graphic work appeared in many underground-comix, in horror and fantasy literature, as well as single-panel cartoons in The Soho Weekly News and other publications. 

Chris would often take multiple approaches to the same subject, using different media. Below are two portraits of author Cornell Woolrich, the first a linocut, the second a painting of the same subject,