CP Weyant

Christopher Peter Weyant (b.1985)  is an American artist who paints and composes figures. His primary interest involves the use of bodies as objects of visual design, with a focus more on spectacle and dynamic movement rather than realism. 

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Christopher Weyant’s artwork has a singular fixation on the concept of refined, animated bodies as “beautiful cartoons”. This concept of the ideal, paired with the use of allegory seeks to emphasize the stages of life: conception, birth, youth, adulthood, and old age, while straddling the borderland of myth. A recurring theme, the putti, often represent the soul, as the center of our thoughts as humans.

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Dissatisfied with small scale painting, Weyant desires to eliminate subtlety by invoking a sense of grand theatricality and modern drama on a large scale, using symbolic narratives that place special emphasis on universally understood rites of passage through contemporary allegory.

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The themes that Weyant explores are profoundly personal, and often based on emotional epiphanies and profound life changes. Themes such as dizzying passion, conditional love, moral quandaries, eroticism, fear of death and aging, and the celebration of life, form the canon of emotional myth that shape the artist’s view.