Christopher Mir "Static is Singing"
Benrimon Contemporary
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Benrimon Contemporary presents Static Is Singing, Christopher Mir’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, which will feature an installation of all new paintings. Mir draws on imagery culled from social media, the internet, film stills and other sources to create a series of non-sequiturs that appear to be out of a strange graphic novel.
The title of the exhibition, Static is Singing is inspired from a song by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel emphasizing the important role that music has played in these new works. In Death Beetle, the color palette, which evokes Halloween or Day of the Dead, along with an iconic symbol of death, could easily be an album cover. Flower Girls comes from a film still he saw long ago and although he has forgotten the name, the image fragment of two girls in flower costumes has made its way into a painting. For the viewer, there is little point in trying to create relationships to each of the works in this exhibition other than stylistically. Mir is rejecting the notion of a formalistic show and has thus decided to offer us a new, diverse body of work in his oeuvre. The result is sixteen new paintings with an energizing movement and engaging color palette.
Christopher Mir was born in 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland. He received an undergraduate degree from Marlboro College in Painting and Anthropology in 1992 and went on to achieve a MFA in Painting/Printmaking in 1997 from Boston University School for the Arts. Christopher Mir lives and works in Hamden, Connecticut.
[Image: Christopher Mir "Flower Girls" (2012) Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas over Panel, 48 x 72 in.]
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Schedule
from January 17, 2013 to February 23, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-01-17 from 18:00 to 20:00