Dero Christensen

Dero Christensen (b.1989 Laguna Hills, CA) is a self-described optimist and artist whose colorful approach to oil and acrylic painting integrates a spectrum of patterns and palettes. while largely self taught, his artistic essence draws upon his travels and a healthy appetite for worldly folk design. nomadic by nature, Christensen works beside the pacific of southern california, the sonoran desert of arizona, and on occasion the forests in between.

Dero’s paintings represent a contemplation of his and modern society’s balancing act between consciousness and biological instinct as the human endurance is stretched through the transition from a natural wildness to an industrial mind. ​ “A bit too attached” to natural surroundings, the sun and seasons, his style can vary widely from summer to winter. while his palette and subject juggle a playfully optimistic vision, the narrative is often times spoken with an absurdist mind and occasionally nihilistic voice- ultimately finding peace in paintings riddled with ironic idealism of philosophic leisure, nostalgia and whimsical escape.