exposure
Apophenia Zephyr, The Drey, Berlin, (deu) 2020
Unlimited Hangout, The Drey, Toronto, (ca) 2020
Acker Award, Toronto, (ca) 2018
Nagy Oktoberi Szofosas, Magyar Muhely Galeria MMG, Budapest, (hu) 2017
Writing Abstracts, Robert Kananaj Gallery, Toronto, (ca) 2014
Clean Salvage, Acadia Fine Art, Toronto (ca) 2012
Art Toronto int. Art Fair, Galeria Begona Malone, Toronto, (ca)
Clean Salvage, The Focus Gallery, Hamilton (ca)
New Works on Paper, The Focus Gallery, Hamilton (ca) 2010
Christmas At Poulsen, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen (den)
Art Toronto int. Art Fair, Galeria Begona Malone, Toronto (ca) 2009
50/50, Hunter and Cook, Toronto (ca)
Poulsen on Paper, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen (den)
Art Toronto int. Art fair, Galeria Begona Malone, Toronto (ca) 2008
Scope New York, Galeria Begona Malone, NY (us) 2007
TBA, Galeria Begona Malone, Madrid (esp)
Scope Miami, Galeria Begona Malone, Miami (us)
Outside the Ordinary, Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal (ca)
Locus Horribilis, Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal (ca)
Art Toronto int. Art fair, Galeria Begona Malone, Toronto (ca)
Locus Horribilis, Art Metropole, Toronto (ca)
Summer Splash, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto (ca)
Efficiency, Mind Control, Toronto (ca) 2004
Le Salon de Printemps, Spin Gallery, Montreal (ca)
Drawing Attention, Spin Gallery, Toronto (ca)
Illdoll, Spin Gallery, Toronto (ca)
Manifestations, Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal (ca) 2002
The New Romantics, Revolver A-Level, Toronto (ca)
Dark Movement, Art System, Toronto (ca) 2001
Aesthetic Evil, Art System, Toronto (ca)
collections
Bailey Fine Arts, Toronto (ca)
Gerard Gorce Beaux-Arts, Montreal (ca)
Pierre-Francois Ouellette, Montreal (ca)
Ron Martin, Toronto (ca)
Collette Tougas, Montreal (ca)
Jerome Fortin, Montreal (ca)
Ed Pien, Toronto (ca)
Donal Loque, LA (us)
Fernanda Faria Toronto (ca)
background
OCADU University of Art and Design
SHERIDAN Institute of Applied Art
grants
OAC Film/Video Creation Production
video
FAULT, 38min. Animated Film, DIGI-BETA 2007
ILLDOLL, 14min. Animated Film DVD 2003
oil on canvas / porn for spiders
Artists are not here to save the world. They are here to save their own worlds via reckless human maps inherited from the disappointment of the superiority in every way of subconscious depiction.
labour accords me autocratic, tactile and graphic necessity. Impotent in placation, language and instruction unless thriving obliquely as a greedy habitual fetish semi-occult in nature.
oil on panel or canvas / sculpting in oil
attributes of the medium/draftsmanship of sculpture. Seduced
by erosion.
charcoal on paper / clean salvage / (not to draw my drawings)
or when my mind becomes jealous of the quality of the marks made subconsciously in the periphery.
or what to do when the seeing a marks conscious intent begins to sicken me.
The body of work in the Exhibition “Clean Salvage”, has been built through a process of elimination and displacement.
The displacement occurs by forcing whatever medium used into areas outside my focal point while working in another direction.
When sufficient drift is sculpted and layered in these peripheries, the focus shifts to these
residuals to be cut away and valued for their independence.
These margin follow-throughs, bleeds and residuals, make for beautifully subconscious less drawn less built “graphica”.
forward / Samantha Crowhurst 2012
Through a variety of approaches to the mythological landscape, delving into fervent and psychosomatic territories with fear,
desire and intimacy: producing ”clean” uncensored pictorial landscapes filed with tension.
With intense manufactured and aesthetically original mythologies, Christopher Lori exposes the veracity of his own account,
sculpting hidden and intimate pressures to be clean in nature - persuading himself of the worth and states of daily, emotional
needs continually nailed to the wall.
bio
Born in St. Catharines (ca) 1970 of Irish and Italian decent Christopher Lori has developed his art since childhood, with supplemental studies at both OCADU and Sheridan Institute Of Applied Arts.
currently active in Toronto (ca)
