{"id":5498,"date":"2017-02-23T15:03:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2018-05-20T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T02:54:08","slug":"christopher-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/christopher-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5431\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5498-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/christopherrichmond.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/christopherrichmond.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/christopherrichmond.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christopherchristopher.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5499 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Christopher-Richmond.jpg?resize=237%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Christopher-Richmond.jpg?resize=237%2C300&amp;ssl=1 237w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Christopher-Richmond.jpg?resize=768%2C970&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Christopher-Richmond.jpg?resize=810%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 810w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Christopher-Richmond.jpg?resize=624%2C788&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Christopher-Richmond.jpg?w=1583&amp;ssl=1 1583w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Christopher-Richmond.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/>Christopher Richmond<\/a> <\/span><span class=\"s1\">works in film, video, and photography to explore identity and intimacy through the lens of science fiction and myth. Often employing masks, puppets, and animatronics, his work merges the real world with a handcrafted phantasmagoria populated by sentient creatures, alien beings, and \u201cbig dumb objects\u201d that explore the human condition and the search for meaning. Rather than developing works in chronological order and finely-etched characters, his works repeat simple acts, focusing on the interplay of gesture and rhythm, impassivity and emotion, and invite the viewer to actively participate in the creation of meaning\u2014to abandon the role of passive onlooker and dip their toe into the primordial slime to feel for the bottom.\u00a0His interplay of images and sounds probe the fourth wall and make the\u00a0everyday surreal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Christopher Richmond earned his MFA from the Roski School of Fine Arts at USC in 2014 and his BFA from Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University in 2009. His film, video and photographic work, has been widely exhibited in galleries in Los Angeles, New York, and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions include Available Light (for three) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016-17); Double Fantasy, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles (2016); and Double in brass, Lundgren Gallery, Spain (2015). He received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist grant in 2014. He lives and works in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The book mentioned at the end of the interview is \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/ordinary-man-cinema\">The Ordinary Man of Cinema<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5500\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5500 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Panth-Final-X.jpg?resize=625%2C379&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Panth-Final-X.jpg?resize=1024%2C621&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Panth-Final-X.jpg?resize=300%2C182&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Panth-Final-X.jpg?resize=768%2C466&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Panth-Final-X.jpg?resize=624%2C378&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Panth-Final-X.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Panth-Final-X.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view, Panthalassa, 2015, 2-channel HD video, 16mm black and white film, sound transferred to HD, 49:30, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5501\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5501 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Rendezvous_2.jpg?resize=625%2C421&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Rendezvous_2.jpg?resize=1024%2C690&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Rendezvous_2.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Rendezvous_2.jpg?resize=768%2C517&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Rendezvous_2.jpg?resize=624%2C420&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Rendezvous_2.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Rendezvous_2.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view, Rendezvous, 2016, HD video, 16mm color film, VHS, sound transferred to HD, 41:00, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/christopherrichmond.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listChristopher Richmond works in film, video, and photography to explore identity and intimacy through the lens of science fiction and myth. 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