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Artist Statement:
CHRIS TWOMEY statement
www.christwomey.com
christwomey@earthlink.net
My body of work, inspired by
themes of origins and
identity, involves painting,
drawing, film, installation,
digital media and sound. Using
my own life and experience as
a female in society as
springboard for meditations on
the human condition and our
interconnectivity, the work
explores scientific,
psychological, or conceptual
ideas that impact our
understanding of identity
FRACKED VENUS 2011 DVD
FRACKED VENUS examines how
society reveres the priceless
exterior of our healthy world,
as exemplified by the youthful
perfection of the VENUS de
MILO sculpture and yet allows
a frightening practice which
releases toxins, pollutants,
and unseen dangers that
destroy our cells and infects
our interior world with
cancer, immunological illness,
and mutations. A DVD
accompanied by the sound of
Fracking for Natural Gas
drilling, animates the
progress of a PET scan, which
drills through the torso of
human VENUS whose interior has
been tainted and stained. A
print of VENUS de MILO
accompanies.
ASTRAL FLUFF: Carnal Bodies in
Celestial Orbit, 2010
MULTIPLE DVDS (not included in
2004-2010 compile)
The repetitive actions that
make up our days become the
grid or structure that
supports the foundation and
assumptions of our ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Westbeth Gallery,
(non-profit) NYC– “CHRIS
TWOMEY & Core Constellation,”
2010 - CREON Gallery (project
space), NYC – “ASTRAL FLUFF:
Carnal Bodies in Celestial
Orbit”
2006 - Tribes Gallery
(non-profit), NYC “MADONNA
SERIES”
2004 - Tribes Gallery
(non-profit), NYC “OMNI
SERIES, Art and Genetics in a
Digital Age”
SELECTED GROUP ...
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Artist Reviews:
Art in America
March 2007
Chris Twomey at Tribes by
---- Carey Lovelace
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"The Scientist" NEWS
Mitochondrial Madonnas
A painter reinvents the
Madonna and child genre using
imagery from genetics
By Arthur Warwick
[Published 27th October 2006
03:19 PM GMT]
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It's been a long time since
the artist Chris ...
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Collections:
MONA Museum of New Art,
Detroit, MI
RHIZOME, New York, NY
Many private collections...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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CHRIS TWOMEY BIO
Award winning artist, writer, curator, Chris Twomey has had 5 solo exhibitions of her work and innumerable group exhibitions to date. Chris Twomey’s body of work, inspired by themes of origins and identity, involves painting, drawing, film, installation, digital media and sound. Using her own life and experience as a female in society as springboard for meditations on the human condition and our interconnectivity, the work explores scientific, psychological, or conceptual ideas that impact our understanding of identity. Graduating from Pratt Institute with a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts, (New Forms) Twomey has received various awards; CAPS grant, Ford Grant, and Experimental TV award and an American Film Institute Directing Internship among others. She has written for “M In Art World” Magazine, as well as for “Resolve40,” an online ezine. She is also co-founder and curator of BROADTHINKING.ORG, a collaborative dedicated to visually promoting innovative concepts about peace, ecology, gender politics, and genetics.
In October 2011, “Time, Media, and Significance” a mid-career survey exhibition at the Pascal Gallery at Ramapo College in New Jersey was curated by Sydney Jenkins and reviewed by Daniel Rothbart for The Artery Magazine. Exhibitions 2010 included two solo exhibitions. The first, held at Westbeth Gallery, (non-profit) NYC was entitled, “CHRIS TWOMEY & Core Constellation,” another mid career survey of Chris Twomey’s multifaceted artwork and a group exhibition by the Core Group. Twomey’s second solo exhibition in 2010 was at CREON Gallery (project space), NYC, “ASTRAL FLUFF: Carnal Bodies in Celestial Orbit.”
She is currently finishing an artist’s Monograph/memoir entitled 'Chris Twomey: Parallax - Time, Media and Significance' detailing the trajectory of her work as it has evolved in parallel with her life. It is 140 pages long with an essay by Eleanor Heartney.
Since 2004, Twomey has received positive critical reviews for her exhibitions. Her first solo exhibition in 2004, “Omni Series, Art and Genetics in a Digital Age” shown at Tribes gallery in NYC, was broadcast on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 as well as featured in print reviews. In 2006, Twomey’s second solo exhibition, “Madonna Series” received reviews in “Art in America,” “The Scientist,” “Art and Science Collaborations, Inc.,” and NYArts Magazine. Since 1999, Twomey has been shown in group art exhibitions around the USA, with work in the permanent collection of the Museum of New Art, Detroit, Rhizome Artbase, and other private collections.
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