
Bitemark to the Chin
A raw and visceral composition, Chris Succo's *Bitemark to the Chin* merges the physicality of oil paint with the slick, seductive finish of lacquer on canvas, creating a surface that oscillates between aggression and allure. Succo's signature gestural language pulses through the work, evoking the charged intensity suggested by its title. Presented in the artist's own frame, the piece extends its visual statement beyond the canvas itself, asserting a total, self-contained artistic vision.
- Medium
- oil, lacquer on canvas, in artist's frame
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 15, 2015
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Albert Oehlen
German · b. 1954

Oehlen shares Succo's fusion of raw gestural paint handling with slick industrial surface materials, combining oil with lacquer and resin to create canvases that feel simultaneously aggressive and seductive. His dark palette and charged abstract compositions carry the same visceral physicality found in Bitemark to the Chin.

André Butzer
German · b. 1973

Butzer works within the same German gestural abstraction tradition as Succo, deploying explosive brushwork and a raw emotional intensity that mirrors the charged aggression embedded in this piece. His thickly worked canvases share the same oscillation between violence and allure that defines Succo's surface language.

Dan Rees
British · b. 1982

Rees combines unconventional industrial finishes with gestural mark making on canvas, producing works whose material tension between slick lacquered surfaces and raw paint application closely mirrors Succo's hybrid technique. His work similarly asserts a total physical presence through the deliberate interplay of opposing surface qualities.
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