Lecture and Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 18, 6:30–8:30pm
Exhibit dates:
January 18–March 1
Hours are Mon.–Fri., 9am–5pm.
“What Does Adventure Look Like?” is a sequence of 21 paintings by Christopher Joy, who makes abstract paintings and sculptures and documentary films. The New York-based artist is also a curator and co-founder of the artist interview series “Gorky’s Granddaughter.”
Joy’s oil paintings are often diffuse, biomorphic improvisations across a misty field of color. In them, he explores super-imposition, schism, magic line, cloud-gazing, separation through color, and mediation through veiling. His sculptures are three-dimensional explorations of similar concepts, using paper, glue, metal, aqua resin, sculpt-o-mold, wood, PLA 3-D printed plastic, and oil and acrylic paint.
Joy’s work has been included in several solo and numerous group shows nationally with coverage in Two Coats of Paint and The Painter’s Table. In addition to exhibiting his own work, Joy has served as a curator for large-scale group shows in New York City, Connecticut, and San Francisco. Joy earned an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in 2000.
His series “Gorky’s Granddaughter” has produced 500 movies documenting artists across the art world.
In his lecture, Joy will give context to the progression of paintings in the exhibition, from building a library of small-scale works, learning to linger, and developing a system to manage creativity.
