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Chris Wicker

Re-Release

Video stretched across two monitors

"Producing recognizable forms in the format of television shows, news broadcasts, movies, and much more, the television has acted as another member of the family that holds attention, conversation, and comfortability for years. Even though this idea stems from television’s predecessor, radio, the formal design of the television, coupled with the recognizable forms broadcast to millions, essentially classifies the piece of machinery as another member of the family.

With this project, the concept of ‘television as a body’ is taken literally. Separating the footage into two monitors, the face both resembles and falls short of a recognizable human face. It is in this space that the televisions acting as 'members of the family' cycle between discernible and indistinguishable.”

— Chris Wicker

About the artist

Chris Wicker

American

Chris Wicker is a New Media artist from Texarkana, TX. Chris received his BFA from Stephen F. Austin State University in 2018 and his MFA from Texas Christian University in 2021. Chris has had solo exhibitions at Blind Alley in Fort Worth, TX, Common Space in Bartlett, TX. and recently in the New Media Gallery at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, TX. His work has also been included in multiple group exhibitions at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Creative Exchange Gallery in Ruston, LA, and in the recent exhibition titled Château Château in Dallas, TX. Internationally, Chris has been a part of exhibitions in Hiroshima, the Khodynka Gallery in Moscow, Russia, and included in The One Minutes Foundation showing of The Fields of Algorithms in The Netherlands. Currently practicing in Houston, TX, Chris maintains his role as the Exhibitions Manager for FotoFest.
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