Formerly of Roanoke, Virginia, Christopher Gose now lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he works as a Lecturer and Studio Supervisor in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University. He received his B.F.A. in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and he followed up this experience by completing the M.F.A. in Sculpture at The Ohio State University. He has worked closely with artists such as Malcolm Cochran and Mia Westerlund-Rosen, and he has had a number of solo and group exhibitions in several galleries, including the ACME Art Company in Columbus Ohio, the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College, and the Parthenon which is the city of Nashville’s museum. In addition to being the recipient of a number of grants, in 2004, he was awarded the Individual Artist Fellowship from The Ohio Arts Council.
The power of a work lies in how it plays with our perceptions. In his book Jean Baudrillard, Richard Lane states, “[I]t isn’t a ‘fake’ existence in the sense of the representation blurring with the real – it is another type of ‘reality,’ and that is how the subject experiences it.” Grounded in the conceptual framework of Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, Christopher’s artwork reveals his interests in simulations/replications of real organisms, the duplicating [and/or mechanizing] of these replications to emphasize the abstract idea/object, the alteration of nature, and the synthesis of these images. Whether they are kinetic installations of fake animals, photographs, or sculptural installations, his works focus on the significance of the use of space in relation to the overall feeling of the work. The exploration of scale, line, and proportions, and the relationships to the audience and environment, as well as the use of light and shadow have remained central to his work.
Christopher Gose