Chris Coy (b. 1981, Fayetville, NV USA)

“My work deals in part with the indeterminacies of terminal-based culture,” explains multi-disciplinary artist Chris Coy. “Objects exist to be digitized into their infinitely reproducible other - a digital double in triplicate. Nothing is fixed. The edges are fuzzy. The pixel is our material.” Stark, stern and self-confident in reproduction, his paintings trespass the recently-resurrected Neo-Minimalist clubhouse. Akin to props on a talk show or sitcom: the surface and support is crafted almost entirely from ephemeral materials, and its monochrome apes the hue of the Hollywood green-screen. Says Coy, “The pseudochromes with their chroma key green paint jobs and white crosses function as recursive markers - indices to alternate sites of post-production. They are support and armature for the everyness: invisible and unknowable cybervoids. When a blackhole looks at itself, what does it see? Does it go to the movies?”

Chris Coy completed a one day residency at Hallway Projects in 2010 and is currently earning his MFA at the University of Southern California. His work has been included in exhibitions nationally and internationally at LaViola Gallery, New York (2010), Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City (2010), Pixxelpoint New Media Art Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia (2009), Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam (2009), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2008) and JstChillin.org (the internet), amongst other venues. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Image: Chris Coy, Pseudochrome 14, 2011, gatorboard, acrylic, vinyl, 60 x 48 inches (152.4 x 121.92 cm).

(c) Chris Coy