Christopher Hickey is a professor of art at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia where he teaches drawing, printmaking and computer imaging. His works have been included in over thirty national and regional juried exhibitions. He received the M.F.A. degree from the University of Nebraska and the B.F.A. degree from Miami University of Ohio.

Drawing is the foundation for Hickey's work. Figure and still-life images are all drawn from life using traditional perceptual methods. Most drawings are created with charcoal or pencil on toned or white paper. The content of recent prints involves the translation of life drawing studies into the processes of woodcut and etching. The direct interpretation of the model in the drawing experience is critical to the gesture and appearance of the figures in the prints.

Alvin Toffler, in his 1970 book Future Shock, predicted that our everyday lives would be continually pressure packed and subject to extreme change. Academic studies of the figure have been a hallmark of artistic training for centuries. Those of us that choose to participate in the ritual of the "open studio" do so for a variety of reasons. One constant might be the fact that within the duration of the experience we are fully functioning in "the present", that Zen-like state of being focused and mindful. For a moment we transcend modern day pressures and participate in intimacy.