My objective is to create images that explore the world around me and to process them into a visual language. I am not interested in making images of the obvious or the content heavy. Rather than present the entire subject, I find it much more revealing to begin with elements of the subject. I use fragments, gestures and remains, which become my visual vocabulary. These smaller pieces of information engage the viewer in a search to decipher meaning. My work is less about final meaning and more about the process of discovery. Photography has commonly been considered the art of representing a single moment in time. However, the camera can be used as a more discursive tool. For example, to eliminate the static quality of the traditional image, I employ several techniques--compiling images into diptychs to expand the representation of time, chemical degeneration of negatives to add an additional layer of personal vision, and rejection of the typical rectangular format for a unique circular lens to vignette and give the image an other-worldly quality.

"Sight-Seeing"- 15 B&W diptych images utilizing a split frame camera format. Chris's work makes a strong statement about the beauty and intrigue his process of discovery uncovers. Silver Prints.

BFA Maryland Institute College of Art

Selected One Person Shows

C. Grimaldis Gallery - "Eastern European Images" - Baltimore, MD - 2000

Regi's - "Diptychs, Documents, and Nudes" - Baltimore, MD - 1997

School 33 Art Center - "Body of Evidence" Baltimore , MD - 1996

Selected Group Exhibits

American Center for Physics - "Inter Play" - Washington, DC - 2000

C. Grimwaldis Gallery - "Summer '00" - Baltimore, MD - 2000

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine - Baltimore, MD - 1999

Photofest - Baltimore, MD - 1999

Corcoran Gallery of Art - "Artsites" - Washington, DC / Mclean, VA - 1998

Washington Center for Photography - Washington, DC - 1997

Metropol Gallery -" Night Light" - Baltimore, MD - 1997

Maryland Art Place -" Critics Residency Program" - Baltimore, MD - 1995

Maryland Federation of Art - Gallery on the Circle - Annapolis, MD - 1993