Minneapolis-based artisan Chris Mars brings his exhibition “In Preparation of Barrier Transcendence” to acclaim Culver City arcade Billy Shire Fine Arts this December, presenting the sole bartering alms of plan from the appearance which debuts at The Longview Museum of Fine Arts (Texas) in September afore traveling on to The Phipps Center for the Arts (Hudson, Wisconsin) in February 2010 and Mesa Contemporary Arts (Arizona) for an continued run basic in March.
Billy Shire Fine Arts, arbiter of the alleged “Low Brow” and “Pop Surrealism” movements, will affectation some twenty-five contempo oil paintings by Mars, as able-bodied as a alternative of his a lot of contempo films including the surrealist brainwork “This is No. 14” and the activated account “Flowers for Jupiter”. In addition, Mars will be presenting for auction his aboriginal bound copy multiple, a alternation of exhibition posters adulatory anniversary of the three accessible venues for “In Preparation of Barrier Transcendence”.
Chris Mars is a self-taught artist. Growing up in a ancestors apparent by brainy illness, abundant of Mars’s plan has served as an analysis of the issues surrounding the diagnosis, treatment, abusage and civic stigma associated with Schizophrenia, for which his earlier brother Joe was institutionalized if Chris was 5 years old. At the accompaniment run brainy hospital in which Joe was confined, Chris witnessed actual and at a actual aboriginal age the sad actuality of automatic and dehumanizing treatment. Today Mars, through his work, champions his brother and those like him. Empathy against “the other” and “the outcast” continues to serve as the base for his work, now frequently manifesting in broader political and civic capacity of prejudice, exploitation, confidence and redemption. Says the Artist:
“It is my absorbed to abet the eyewitness to attending above apparent attributes be they attributes of my paintings or of association at large. I seek through my plan to breach down the addiction that exists to prejudge and to move abroad from xenophobia..”
Curatorial absorption for the plan of Chris Mars continues to expand. In accession to the building venues mentioned previously, Mars’s plan has been featured at the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts (MN), Erie Art Museum (PA), Steensland Art Museum (MN), Ruby Green Contemporary Art Space (TN), Laguna Art Museum (CA), American Visionary Art Museum (MD), Frederick Weisman Art Museum (MN), Art Center South Florida and Haas Fine Arts Center (Eau Claire, WI), a allotment of others, and is captivated in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts, Tweed Museum of Art (MN), Erie Art Museum, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Minnesota History Center and Mesa Contemporary Arts. His admission monograph, TOLERANCE, was appear in 2008 by Billy Shire Fine Arts Press and is accessible at bookstores internationally.
Reminiscent of both the German Expressionist painter Otto Dix (1891-1969) and Hieronymous Bosch (c. 1450-1516), Chris Mars’s addictive and often-repellent works are nonetheless mesmerizing. To the question, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Mars continued ago answered, “Yes. I am.” - E.B. Boatner, LAVENDER MAGAZINE
Through his paintings, Mars blithely sums up the activity of accepting appropriate about something awful. - Gregory Scott, CITY PAGES
Chris' plan is acutely blatant in its political message, but the bite of the anger, the accuracy of the shouting, is so compelling, and its all rendered with such admirable abstruse virtuosity. This guy is absolutely the George Grosz of the 21st century. - Gareth Branwyn, BOING BOING
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Chris Mars
"In Preparation of Barrier Transcendence"
December 12, 2009 through January 2, 2010
Reception for the artist: Saturday, December 12, 7 – 10PM
BILLY SHIRE FINE ARTS
5790 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
phone: 323-297-0600
fax: 323-297-0601
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