BIRTHPLACE:   Mississippi LIVES IN:   New York

WORKS IN:   New York WEBSITE:   http://www.chantelforetich.com

 

I make small versions of real and recalled places, sometimes exacting, more often not so.  These places are charged in some way, a constructed relic, small enough to imagine inside a human body, sized in the same way that memories recede, but fill the body upon recollection.

Solo Exhibitions

 

The Tin Shop, Breckenridge, CO, May 2007

 

Paperplate Throw, La Lunchonette window installation, New York, NY, 2004

Nebraska Avenue, La Lunchonette window installation, New York, NY, 2003

Musicboxes & Dioramas, Apocalyposo, New York, NY, 2002

Entre Nous, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Gautier, MS, 1998

Recollections and Lovers, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 1997

Selected Group Exhibitions

Bridge Art Fair, Catalina Hotel, Greene Contemporary, Miami, FL, December 2007

The Encampment, Roosevelt Island, NY, October 2007

Conflux, Williamsburg, NY, September 2007

Thirty Second Spot, Cuchifritos, New York, NY August 2007

Peekskill Project 2006, window installation, Peekskill, NY, 2006

The Studio Visit, video installation, Exit Art, New York, NY, 2006

Traffic, Exit Art, New York, NY, 2005

EA50, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY, 2004

Home, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY, 2003

Dreamy, Ziehersmith Gallery, New York, NY, 2003

Miss Lower East Side Pageant, Talent: Music boxes, hosted by Mr. Murray Hill, Slipper Room, New York, NY, 2002

Jean Bordeaux Florida Sculpture Show, LeMoyne Art Museum, Tallahassee, FL, 2000

The Devil Made Me Do It, Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL, 1999

Featuring Florida '98, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, 1999

Art to Arm the Women of Hattiesburg, The Cha-Cha Palace, Hattiesburg, MS, 1993

Hub City Panorama, The Studio / Hattiesburg Public Library, National Endowment for the Arts, Hattiesburg, MS, 1992

Hattiesburg: The Other Mississippi, Gallery 203, Hattiesburg, MS 1992

Bibliography

New York Arts Magazine, "Toward a Motionless Childhood," Cecilia Muhlstein, September / October 2006

Time Out New York, "Critics' Pick," Katherine Wheelock, September 12, 2002

Village Voice, "La Dolce Musto," Michael Musto, February 12, 2002