2/20: OUT OF THE WOODS // new works CHRISTOPHER ROSE

OUT OF THE WOODS
new works by CHRISTOPHER ROSE
February 19-21, 2011

Opening Reception: Sunday, Feb 20, 4-8
Open Hours: Saturday, Feb 19, 12-5
Monday, Feb 21, noon-4

ACRE Projects
1913 W 17th Street

OUT OF THE WOODS features drawings inspired by Christopher Rose’s summer residency at ACRE and marks his first exhibition in Chicago since leaving the city in 2003. India ink drawings of old growth forests and highway traffic accidents populate Rose’s current project.  Working from an ever-growing archive of photographic source material Rose creates densely patterned landscape drawings and acrylic paintings on plexi-glass.  These works engage a labor-intensive process to translate vacation snap-shots and news media photos into intricately detailed patterns, digital abstractions and stylized silhouettes.

All works were created between August 2010 and February 2011.

CHRISTOPHER ROSE was born in Washington DC in 1979.  He received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2001, and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003.

His work has been exhibited in New York in exhibitions at PS 122 Gallery, Hudson Franklin, and 717 Gallery.  He has exhibited abroad at the Schalter project room in Berlin, and Galerie Brisot and Linz in Paris. He has also exhibited his work across the United States most recently in Portland OR at Quality Pictures Contemporary Art, Buckham Gallery in Flint Michigan, Penn State University, and the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Athens GA.

He is a former artist in residence of the Chashama studio program.  Christopher is a founding member of the artist collective Round Robin.

More information about Christopher Rose can be found at www.christopherrose-art.com.