ARTS Southeast is pleased to present Yoink!, new works 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. Inspired by an Instagram collection of background frames absent any characters these sites are at once familiar and strange. 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. A copy of a copy of an imaginary painting, at this point in the discourse it’s a cringe joke.
Elsewhere…
In an effort to use free resources to make new work, I habitually save all containers that make it to our front porch. A poke at the art materials industrial complex I collect the magazines from our mailbox, the paperboard food packaging from our kitchen (cereal, crackers and thin crust pizza mostly) and all the plastic bags from dried fruits & nuts, frozen veg, etc. until I find a new use for them. With the help of a paper shredder, I turn magazines into paper clay that I use to make most of the heads in this series. I use cardboard shipping containers to make rock-like painting surfaces.
Meanwhile…
Falling alphabetically somewhere between yogurt and yokel, yoink is the cartoon sound of theft. Yoink is hoarding by the greedy. Yoink is crtl + cut, copy, paste. 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 trash together for an exhibition.”
– 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 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 Sulfur Studios (Savannah, GA) among others. He is currently in a two-artist exhibition at The Lyndon House Art Center, with Sue Fox (Athens, GA), and will soon present an exhibition in the Sechrest Gallery at Highpoint University, with Kelly Boehmer and Susan Klein (Highpoint, NC). He lives and works in Savannah, GA.
