Chris Garofalo

Chris Garofalo's sculptures blur the distinction between land, sea and air, plant and animal kingdoms by examining the state between the waving arms of a sea anemone and unfurling the tendril of a fern. Her sculptures are inspired by life forms never known and by those which may evolve. Neither representational nor specifically recognizable, this work explores the unpredictable, the unrepeatable, and the accidental potential of life forms.

Garofalo has had shows at Rhona Hoffman Gallery at EXPO CHICAGO, Rhona Hoffman Gallery at Art Basel in Miami Beach, a highly acclaimed installation at the Garfield Park Conservatory, the group exhibition La Carte d’Après Nature curated by Thomas Demand and exhibited at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco and Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, the group exhibition No Rules: Contemporary Clay at Elmhurst Art Museum and recent solo exhibitions at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois, Muskegon Museum of Art in Michigan, and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Illinois. In 2007 she received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painter and Sculptor Grant Award.

Courtesy of Rhona Hoffman