chris sumption
A native northwesterner who supports accessible digital information by day and spends their nights and weekends with family, abstract painting, science fiction illustration, tabletop role-playing games, and digital humanities research.
informatics
Accessible digital information management using content strategy, user experience, HTML, CSS, WCAG, XML, SQL, WordPress, and SharePoint.
research
Digital humanities research that addresses historical space-time tagging, Text Encoding Initiative programming interfaces, and data visualizations.
design
Design, illustration, and photo projects from the education, entertainment, hospitality, manufacturing, sales, and signage industries.
about
Chris Sumption was born in Portland, Oregon. They eventually moved with their family to Washington State where they divided their time between watching airplanes land and playing with Legos. They received an Industrial Design Technology degree from the Seattle Art Institute and a Bachelor of Science in Informatics from the University of Washington. Chris currently resides in Seattle with his wife Caren, and works in digital information management, website ADA compliance, game design, graphic design, and illustration. In their spare time they pursue digital humanities research into interoperable historical visualizations, applications associated with archival encoding standards, and abstract painting.
artist statement
From my earliest experimentations with Legos to my appreciation of artists like Edward Hopper, Syd Mead, Charles Wysocki and Leiji Matsumoto, I have always had a strong fascination with geometric shapes and an aggressive use of perspective. I strive to give inanimate objects a life of their own. This is accomplished through the use of conceptual and suggestive techniques, often avoiding total refinement of my subject matter. I use a range of materials from acrylics on canvas to completely digital formats, often combining mediums. Currently, I am exploring two creative directions. The first is a more traditional, digital, illustrative style, which focuses on science fiction subject matter–the second is abstract paint on canvas expression, combining my product rendering background with my love of geometry and perspective.
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