Two Arms, 2010 wood, steel pipe and fittings, glue and twine 42 x 1 x 4 inches each   Chad Person Surviving the End of Your World The artist's inaugural LA exhibition featuring installation, performance and sculpture. Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 5-7p On view: July 10 – August 14, 2010 Mark Moore Gallery 2525 Michigan Avenue, A-1 Santa Monica, CA 90404 Telephone 310 453 3031 Fax 310 453 3831 info@markmooregallery.com www.markmooregallery.com Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to announce the first Los Angeles solo exhibition for contemporary artist, Chad Person. In his newest body of work, Person utilizes his trademark fascination with the confluence of economy and societal power structures through innovative installation, sculpture and performance. Surviving the End of Your World will feature several collages from the artist's "TaxCut" series, and the debut of "Thirst" – a fifteen-foot inflatable sculpture depicting the Mobil Oil Pegasus lying in a glossy black acrylic pool of its own crude. Person's use of iconographic signifiers related to American capitalism and consumerism are juxtaposed with notions of sheer Darwinist survival featured in his "RECESS" project, which will be featured in the gallery's Project Room. In addition to a live video feed of the artist's performance in his self-made "apocalypse bunker" in Albuquerque, New Mexico, "RECESS" includes functioning installation works to spotlight cultural intervention, critique of corporate enterprise and the myth of self-reliance in the face of essential conservation. "New Mexico-based multimedia artist Chad Person creates beautifully crafted, ironic indictments on society's most dangerous flaws." – Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill (2010) Chad Person (born 1978, Marinette, WI) received his MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico. His work is included in the public collections of The West Collection (PA), Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection (CA) and The University of New Mexico Art Museum (NM). He has had solo exhibitions in Albuquerque, Marfa and River Falls, and been featured in PULSE Miami Contemporary Art Fair. Person is also the fourth featured artist of the gallery's in-house publication series, Mark Moore Gallery : Statements. To order a hard copy of the mini-retrospective catalogue - which features an interview, press excerpts and overviews of various bodies of work - please email our publications department. Books are $20 each (plus shipping). For a complimentary download of the e-catalogue version, click here. Inquiries regarding available works may be directed to Mark Moore. For more information on the artist, opening event or additional press materials, please visit www.markmooregallery.com , or contact Catlin Moore, Gallery Manager. You are listed in our mailing list or you opted-in to receive this email by joining our mailing list at http://www.markmooregallery.com/. If you received this email in error or no longer wish to receive these mailings, please go to http://www.markmooregallery.com/.php?email=artsnews%40absolutearts.com&check=ed3979d6 or contact us at ennouncement@markmooregallery.com. if the above address doesn't work. Note that this may take up to 3 days to process. If you would like to learn more about how we received your email address, please contact us at ennouncement@markmooregallery.com