CHRIS GLABB:
FINE ARTIST,
INNOVATIVE THINKER
& CAT DAD
Hybrid silkscreen paintings celebrate and critique hierarchies by appropriating existing material. These mediums exaggerate and emphasize each other’s inherent differences, while familiarity provides a point of access to the conversation.
AI-generated images, screenshots and archival materials combine into pseudo-photographic works, where the viewer may not realize that I rarely operate a camera. These works question the purpose and limits of photography.
I have found that the place for video art within my practice is purely experimental; I create videos that speak of the things that static medium cannot: sound, the passage of time, and movement.
CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibition
Roadkill Paintings (Found Series) at the Lalande + Doyle Exhibition Space (Shenkman Arts Centre)
May 12th - July 4th
Reception: May 12th 6 - 8 PM
Roadkill Paintings (Found Series) combines found images with found materials to present familiar depictions of violence. The repeated imagery of dead animals should disturb, but instead slips easily into one's field of vision, revealing a growing desensitization to violent content. In an era where horror films are increasingly gory and videos of real-world atrocities circulate online without warning, violence represents both entertainment and news. The grotesque has become banal. Just as one slows down to gawk at roadkill on the highway, people now experience others' suffering with morbid curiosity and indifference.
Roadkill Paintings (Found Series) invites viewers to interrogate the content they consume and the systems that produce it. This series asks them to reconsider their own relationship to violence and beauty.
GROUP EXHIBITION
At a Glance at Galerie Annexe
(Ottawa Art Gallery)
April 26th - June 22nd
At a Glance showcases the diverse array of mediums and techniques used by each artist in their creative process, prompting us to reflect on the significance of photography in these works as well as its impact on all other media. As we dive into each piece, we are invited to search for our own reflection within it.
Artists: Stéphane Alexis, Siobhan Arnott, Andrew Beck, Xiatong Cai, Mary Ann Camps, Rebecca Clouâtre, Joyce Crago, Evergon, Chris Glabb, Nancy Halpin, Lea Hamilton, Whitney Lewis-Smith, Lauren Mercer-Smail, Patti Normand, Cheryl Pagurek, Paul Sharp and Jeff Thomas