NYAB Event - Chris Kienke “Exit Six: Just Enough Rope”

Chris Kienke “Exit Six: Just Enough Rope”

Fuchs Projects

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Fuchs Projects presents “Exit Six: JUST ENOUGH ROPE”, an exhibition of new paintings by Chris Kienke.

The new group of paintings in this exhibition is part of Kienke’s ongoing series, Exit Six.

With “Exit Six: JUST ENOUGH ROPE”, Kienke continues his engagement with images of canonic “American Hollywood” that have been distorted due to a glitch in the electronic signal between the DVD and the television screen and transferred to canvas. This blurring of boundaries and layering of materials allows Kienke to draw formal parallels between the digital and the traditional, the “filmed” and the “real.” With Kienke’s characteristic aesthetic fluency, these “tele-visual” images integrate old and new technology, challenging traditional notions of painting and situating this work within discourses on contemporary society and its relationship to technology. Through this “post-analog” approach, the artist questions the demarcation between notions of reality and virtuality as they inform and influence the creation of cultural identity. Kienke is interested in how the visual languages of film and television inform the creation of an individual’s beliefs and sense of identity giving them just enough rope to deal with the inevitable consequences of their behavior.

Born in Rochester, New York, Chris Kienke’s work has been exhibited in over 70 shows including recent solo exhibitions at the University of Kentucky (2016), the Art Center at National Central University in Taiwan (2015) and the University of Wisconsin in Osh Kosh (2014). Kienke exhibited in the Florence Biennale in 2011, the Brussels Biennial in 2009 and was included in New American Paintings in September 2009. Kienke has been a fellow at Hospitalfield House in Scotland in 1998-1999 and at the Vermont Studio Center in 2003 and 2007. His work is in the permanent collections of ABN Amro Bank in Dubai, Savannah College of Art and Design and the United Kingdom National Collection. Kienke received his MFA from Southern Illinois University - Carbondale in 2000 and his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1994. He is on the faculty of the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Media

• Painting
• Photography

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