#christopher chiappa

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Christopher Chiappa: ‘Lazy Boy Crucifix’ (2000)

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Claudia Bitran (‘14), Amy Brener (’11), Julia Brown (’06), Melissa Brown (’00), Christopher Chiappa (’97), Angela Dufresne (F ‘17), Jonathan Ehrenberg (A ‘11) and Sean McCarthy, Dana Frankfort (’97), Adam Henry (’05), Janelle Iglesias (’09), Vera Iliatova (’04), Meredith James (’11), Chelsea Knight (’08), Florian Meisenberg (’09) and Anna K.E., Ander Mikalson (’12), Shana Moulton (’04), Bridget Mullen (’16), Andrew Ross (’11), Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (’14), Gabriela Salazar (’11), Lui Shtini (’07), Zak Smith (’98), Jennifer Sullivan (’11), Letha Wilson (’09), Bryan Zanisnik (’08), and others AXxoN N.: A Collective Commentary on David Lynch’s Inland Empire Essex Flowers In The Back Space 19 Monroe Street, NYC February 10 – March 10, 2019 Opening Reception: Sunday, February 10, 6-8pm

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Christopher Chiappa

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Christopher Chiappa 

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Christopher Chiappa's French Fry Skull. Part of a diptych called McMiracles.

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Check out this great review in Hyperallergic of Kate Werble Gallery's current group show ROYGBIV, featuring Art-in-Buildings alum Christopher Chiappa, along with other fantastic artists!

"As certain sectors of the art world seem stuck in homogenization, it is gratifying to discover a show that brings together a diverse group of artists – of different races, ethnicities, and ages – without announcing it, and to see work that shares something with some works while having almost nothing in common with the rest. It is the kind of show I hope to see more often in 2018."

- A Show That Requires a Different Kind of Looking

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Only one more week left to see Christopher Chiappa : The Search for Church at Art-in-Buildings' 125 Maiden Lane exhibition space!

The Search for Church is a site-responsive iteration of a longstanding project that began in 2003, the result of Chiappa's exhaustive experimentation with color, texture, and surface on a singular form - a stool modeled after the design of the iconic Weber grill. The project began with a utilitarian aim: the artist, having recently moved to a new, empty studio, was in need of a table and chair, and decided to make an object that could serve as both. The project has since grown to include over 100 elements, all of them unique. Some are made with simple and solid colors, others reveal years of coating, sanding and re-coating in enamel paint and resin. Although each object is a standalone work, their presentation in a display unit built by the artist creates an opportunity to view them together as one large wall relief and demonstrates the seemingly endless variations possible to this simple structure. The scale of the presentation - and their highly visible position in the atrium facing Maiden Lane - adds to their spectacle.