Christopher Grimes Gallery

CHUCK MOFFIT AND SCOTT SHORT

2008 PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Chuck Moffit and Scott Short to exhibit at CHRISTOPHER GRIMES GALLERY.

Christopher Grimes Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculpture by Chuck Moffit inspired by desert landscapes, the ceramicist John Mason, Southern California design of the 1950s - 70s and, most importantly, by the various materials that he works with (clay, steel, and branches) and the methods they require. Moffit is interested in the ideas of transformation and chance in the process of casting metals and the resulting “inclusions,” casting flaws evident by the presence of a particle distinct from the substance it is imbedded in.

Chuck Moffit lives and works in Southern California. He exhibited in the Hammer Museum’s group exhibition Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles (2005) curated by Christopher Miles, James Elaine and Aimee Change. He also was invited to participate in high desert test sites 4, 5 and 6 (2005, 2006, 2007) organized by Andrea Zittel in Joshua Tree, CA. He received an Arts/Industry residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

The South Gallery will feature Scott Short’s first solo show of paintings with Christopher Grimes Gallery. Using a specific palette and process, Short explores the relationship between the Machine and the man-made, the original and the copy, abstraction and representation, the infinite and the temporal. He takes a piece of colored construction paper, photocopies it, then copies the copy, up to 500 times until the distortions of reproduction are evident and unique. Short then, makes a slide, projects it onto a canvas and carefully reproduces it in black oil paint on white primer. The only reference remaining to the original color of the paper remains in the title chosen by Short.

Scott Short lives and works in Chicago. He had his first solo museum show at The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago curated by Hamza Walker (2007).

For biographical information and a selection of additional images, please visit our website at www.cgrimes.com, or contact Christopher Grimes Gallery at 310.587.3373.

For Moffit's biographical information and for Short's biographical information please visit our website at www.cgrimes.com or contact CHRISTOPHER GRIMES GALLERY 310-587-3373.

Moffit's page

Short's page