Christopher N. Ferreria

Christopher N. Ferreria

cnferreria@hotmail.com  |  http://www.uber.com/cnferreria

biography

I am an artist-educator raised and based in Southeast San Diego.  I received my BA in Studio Art from UC Irvine and earned my MFA in Visual Art from UC San Diego.  My work has been featured at inSite_05: Art Practices in the Public Domain (Tijuana-San Diego), The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Highways Performance Space & Visual Arts Gallery in Santa Monica, and the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia.  I have also worked collaboratively on projects shown at the Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach), Deep River Gallery (Los Angeles), and the Huntington Beach Art Center.  Currently, I am an adjunct professor at Southwestern College, Mesa College, and Miracosta College.

statement

My creative practice shifts from traditional representation to aesthetic modes that function at the confluence of site, temporality, chance encounters, and interaction.  This approach to artmaking manifests a collapse of highly formal and exclusive relationships between artist, object, space, and audience as well as redistributes aesthetic authority to reside in multiple sites and agents within a process.  My most recent work explores a focus on the potential of commonplace occurrences and daily practices to be vehicles for or become fully realized occasions in which aesthetic experiences unfold.  Such moments disclose and enact the veiled dynamics of multiplicity, friction, and coexistence between unresolved identities, politics, and desires embodied by the individual.

selected exhibitions / performances / collaborations

2007                                        New Contemporaries

                                                Simayspace  |  San Diego, CA

2006                                        Alimatuan: The Emerging Artist as American Filipino

                                                The Contemporary Museum  |  Honolulu, Hawaii

2005                                        inSite_05: Art Practices in the Public Domain

                                                San Diego-Tijuana border region

Open Ended (exhibition of inSite_05 artist project research)

                                                Athenaeum Music & Arts Library  |  La Jolla, CA

Instituto Cultural de Baja California  |  Tijuana, Mexico

                                                http://www.insite05.org/internal.php?pid=26-80-132

2004                                        Vanvanvantaro! (collaboration with Aya Seko & R.Ochoa's Class:C)

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego – Downtown, VozAlta Project, 99 Ranch Market, Orange County Museum of Art (California Biennial 2004), Little Tokyo (LA)

TNT-Thursday Night Thing (collaborative performance as

           yardcore)

                                                Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego – Downtown

2003        SOLO                      Quiver

                                                VozAlta Project  |  San Diego, CA

2002        SOLO                      To the victor goes the spoiler...  (MFA Thesis Exhibition)

                                                Visual Arts Facility – Herbert Marcuse Gallery  |  UCSD

Schoolugyaru (collaborative installation with Aya Seko)

                                                Studio 237  |  UCSD

2001                                        Ghetto Fabulous

                                                Highways Performance & Visual Art Space  |  Santa Monica, CA

                                                Hook't on Hip Hop

                                                Asian Arts Initiative  |  Philadelphia, PA

2000        SOLO                      brothers brown and small

                                                Russell Gallery Space  |  UCSD

1999                                        When the Water's Warm Enough (collaboration as Renegades)

                                                Deep River Gallery  |  Los Angeles, CA

Centered on the Center

                                                Huntington Beach Art Center  |  Huntington Beach, CA

1998        SOLO                      days of presentpast

                                                Center for Women & Gender Education  |  Irvine, CA

En Route: Constructing Home [collaborative public installation]

                                                73 Highway (University Avenue On-/Off-ramps)  |  Irvine, CA

1997                                        altArnative sacrifices

                                                Highways Performance & Visual Art Space  |  Santa Monica, CA

1995                                        FLIP: By-Productos ng mga Artistang Pilipino

                                                The Art Gallery  |  UCI

Untitled No. 2 (The Anchor Series)
The presentation of the colors.

Shrouded.  Presence and absence.  A void.  Missing.  Surrender.

Upon Your Return to the Comfort of a Storm
 

My dad served during the first Gulf War, under Bush I.  He's retired from the U.S. Navy now.  Growing up, when his ship was sent on a mission overseas, I remember watching him stand at attention on deck as the ship ever so slowly pulled away from us.  It was an eternity before he was far enough away from dock that his absence became real, palpable.  Each time he left, I wondered if he would ever return like he promised.