Chris Doyle

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Tending toward the Untamed: Artists Respond to the Wild Garden
Glyndor Gallery | April 3—August 19, 2012

Chris Doyle began Interleaves with photographs of Wave Hill’s Wild Garden that he selected for their emotional quality. Through the process of drawing, he examines the structure of the garden. By manipulating the images through processes of repeating, mirroring and folding, he pushes them toward abstraction. This practice parallels that of taming or maintaining a garden, which, without human intervention, can easily slip into a state of unruliness. In this project and his other animations, he explores the way that human anxieties and collective attitudes about the environment are projected through representations of landscape. 

Chris Doyle’s multidisciplinary work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY; and as part of the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center and the Melbourne International Arts Festival. In 2007, he organized 50,000 Beds, a large-scale, collaborative video installation involving 45 artists that was presented simultaneously at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Artspace, New Haven, CT; and Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. His temporary and permanent urban projects have been presented by Creative Time and the Public Art Fund in New York, NY, as well as commissions in Culver City, CA; Tampa, FL; Kansas City, MO; Louisville, KY; Austin, TX; Edmonton, Canada; and Stockholm, Sweden. He received an MA in architecture from Harvard University and a BA in fine arts from Boston College.

Interleaves, 2012
Digital animation on two-screen custom display
12" x 15" x 5" 
Courtesy of the artist