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RECESS Installation
RECESS Installation
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RECESS Installation
Cannon, 2010
pvc, steel, aluminum foil, lantern flint and nylon paracord / 5 x 5 x 36 inches
Improvised Double Barrel Shotgun, 2010
wood, steel pipe and fittings, glue and twine / 29 x 3 x 4 inches
Modular Rain Barrel System, 2010
trash cans, pvc and hot water spigots / 76 x 48 x46 (variable)
Sentry, 2010
wood, steel, twine, household implements and custom electronics / 38.5 x 22 x 40 inches
Improvised Shotgun, 2010
wood, steel pipe and fittings, glue and twine / 29 x 1 x 4 inches
Paracord Bracelet, 2010 / 8 inches circumference / paracord and leather / Edition of 10
Two Arms, 2010 / wood, steel pipe and fittings, glue and twine / 42 x 1 x 4 inches each
RECESS Fire-Starting Kit, 2010 / flint, US currency tinder, custom sack
dimensions variable / Edition of 9
RECESS Signal Flags, 2010 / nylon, wood, spray paint / 23 x .5 x 32 inches (each)
Bow and Quiver, 2010
PVC, foam, twine, speaker wire, art tube, aluminum, parakeet feathers
15 x 2 x 38 inches (each)
Animal Trap, 2010
dishwasher rack, stucco lathe, moulding, paracord and sticks / 20 x 24 x 17 inches
RECESS Bunker, 2010
Cinder blocks, cement
Live video feed of artist in bunker (Albuquerque, NM) on digital 22 inch monitor
Thirst, 2010 / vinyl, mixed media, electronics / 15 x 15 x 5 feet
The Mayor Rests, 2008 / vinyl, steel, mixed media, electronics / 13 x 9 feet diameter
Federal Reserve, 2010 / Reconfigured US currency on canvas / 6 x 6 inches
Twelvepack, 2009 / US Currency on canvas / 11 x 14 inches
Tomcat, 2009 / US Currency on canvas / 11 x 14 inches
Intelligencer, 2009 / US Currency on canvas / 13 x 19 inches
JSF, Together We Achieve More, 2008 / US Currency on canvas / 16 x 20 inches
Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to announce the first Los Angeles solo exhibition for contemporary artist, Chad Person.
In his newest body of work, Person utilizes his trademark fascination with the confluence of economy and societal power structures through innovative installation, sculpture and performance. "Surviving the End of Your World" will feature several collages from the artist's "TaxCut" series, and the debut of "Thirst" – a fifteen-foot inflatable sculpture depicting the Mobil Oil Pegasus lying in a glossy black acrylic pool of its own crude. Person's use of iconographic signifiers related to American capitalism and consumerism are juxtaposed with notions of sheer Darwinist survival featured in his "RECESS" project, which will be featured in the gallery's Project Room. In addition to a live video feed of the artist's performance in his selfmade "apocalypse bunker" in Albuquerque, New Mexico, "RECESS" includes functioning installation works to spotlight cultural intervention, critique of corporate enterprise and the myth of self-reliance in the face of essential conservation.
"New Mexico-based multimedia artist Chad Person creates beautifully crafted, ironic indictments on society's most dangerous flaws." – Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorwire (2010)
Chad Person (born 1978, Marinette, WI) received his MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. His work is included in the public collections of The West Collection (PA), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection (CA) and The University of New Mexico Art Museum (NM). He has had solo exhibitions in Albuquerque, Marfa and River Falls, and been featured in PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair.
