Christopher Blay
Recent Works
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Summer Art Camp at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth
In July, I worked with 12-14 year old students at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's summer art camp. The theme was "The Modern: Remixed".For the two dimensional portion of our projects we responded to the works of Sean Scully,, Chuck Close and Hans Hoffman. I asked to students to create signal test patterns based on the works of Scully and Hoffman, using their compositions and some of their colors as inspiration. For the Chuck Close inspired pieces, we created our own system of building up value in a composition, using discarded photo slides. For our video and audio remix, we recorded sounds and images based on the work of Michelangelo Pistaletto and Martin Puryear Here are the results!
Friday, May 11, 2012
Frame Count
Frame count is an installation that talks about the construction of images. The appearance is reminiscent of a film editing room and re-contextualizes movies and color slides as a way of talking about how fragile meaning becomes when images are out of context. The viewer is invited to create their own narratives by advancing slides that interact with still frames, and movie posters. Frame Count is a collaboration between Christopher Blay and Timothy Harding.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
American Trip Road
I collect old slides, films and pictures. In my search I rarely come across images or footage of African Americans. It reflects the condition of an entire culture living in the shadows of the dominant culture. It's as if they'd been edited out. I created American Trip Road for an Installation at the Historic Texas Theater, Dallas in the summer of 2010. I re-edited the classic American road trip to include families that lived and travelled the same roads but were rarely recorded.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
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