Chris Doyle featured in solo exhibition "Idyllwild" at Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco

Sep 08 - Oct 28 2012

Catharine Clark Gallery
San Francisco, CA

Opening Reception: Sep 08 2012

Catharine Clark Gallery is pleased to present “Idyllwild,” the solo exhibition by Chris Doyle, a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition dates are September 8 – October 28, 2012, and will coincide with the ZERO1 Biennial, which opens September 12–16.


For “Idyllwild”, Chris Doyle’s first solo exhibition in the main galleries at Catharine Clark Gallery, the artist presents work from his ongoing series inspired by Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire paintings (1833-36). Doyle’s series delves into Cole’s original narrative and reinterprets the rise and fall of civilization through animations, lightboxes, and watercolors. The course of human interaction with nature is updated with current issues—urban landscapes, consumer trappings, the rise of digital culture. Shifting the sequence, Doyle’s cycle begins withApocalypse Management (telling about being one being living) (2009), based on Desolation(1836), the final painting in Cole’s series. Included in the exhibition are the first three videos of what will eventually be five: Apocalypse Management and Waste_Generation (2010), as well has his newest piece, Idyllwild (2012), a two-channel video projected onto the wall and floor. Filling out the exhibition is a series of related lightboxes and watercolors, and a large circular projection, titled Rondo.


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