ARTS Southeast is pleased to present Yoink!, a Solo Exhibition by Chris Moss
on display at Thompson Savannah from October 9th through December 2025.
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 9th, 6 - 8PM
in conjunction with IMPACT Arts + Culture Magazine Vol. 4 No. 2 Magazine Release Party
About the Exhibition:
“This exhibition combines a few new bodies of work, ‘rocks’ and ‘heads’, with an ongoing series of large crackle paste paintings.
I spent last summer (2024) making copy work of Looney Tunes backgrounds without characters. One of my favorites from that series is the Wile E. Coyote painting of a deep cobalt hued tunnel on the side of a gigantic piece of desert rock. At the same time, I’m thinking a lot about how I can better use resources I already have to make new artwork. I have made a habit of saving all of the cardboard containers that make it to our front porch, the magazines from our mailbox, the paperboard food packaging that leaves our kitchen (cereal, crackers and thin crust pizza mostly) and all the plastic bags from dried fruits & nuts, frozen veg, etc.
With the help of a paper shredder, I started turning magazines into paper clay that I used to make most of the heads in this series. The cardboard shipping containers were also broken down, cut and glued to make rock-like painting surfaces. Eventually the rest of the saved packaging will become their own series too.
Meanwhile…
Falling alphabetically somewhere between yogurt and yokel, ‘yoink’ is the cartoon sound of theft. ‘Yoink’ is the sound of someone who has everything and still isn’t happy taking everything that’s not nailed down for themselves. Yoink is ctrl + c,v,p. Yoink is Danny the Street disappearing into the desert for a while. Yoink is trying to see your whole self in the mirror, only able to imagine what the parts you can’t see look like. Yoink is appropriation in art. Yoink is misappropriation of funds. Yoink is gluing all your garbage together and, like an alchemist, turning it into art.”
– Chris Moss
About the Artist: Christopher Moss (b. 1977, Wilkes-Barre, PA) received a BFA in 2000 from Marywood University, Scranton, PA and an MFA in 2006 from CUNY Brooklyn College. Since 2011, his work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at Theodore (New York, NY). He has also been invited to exhibit at Shaheen Contemporary (Cleveland, OH), Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia, PA) Field Projects (New York), LABspace (Hillsdale, NY), SEASON (Seattle, WA) and ARTS Southeast (Savannah, GA) among others. In fall 2025, his work will be included in exhibitions at The Lyndon House Art Center, with Sue Fox (Athens, GA), and Sechrest Gallery at Highpoint University, with Kelly Boehmer and Susan Klein (Highpoint, NC). He lives and works in Savannah, GA.
Works from the exhibition will be available for purchase at Thompson Savannah, or via our website.
