Christopher Moss paints with a certain kind of honesty, in a flatfooted narrative approach to art making. Seventy square paintings repeat the reductive form of a face in varied hues, settings and textures. The avatar—two dots and a line—is the ubiquitous lowest-common-denominator visual representation of the individual in cyberspace.  There is a kind of anthropomorphization in the viewer’s perception of simple graphic shapes that typifies the best and worst tendencies of humankind, the entire spectrum of personality traits. As remnants of the social media landscape, or even just our social landscape, it's not too hard to imagine these could exist outside computer technology, totems for some other purpose. His most recent works are existential abstractions of notable newspaper cartoon strips such as The Peanuts. 

Christopher Moss was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and grew up in rural northeastern Pennsylvania. He received his MFA from CUNY Brooklyn College in 2006, where he was granted a CERF Award for Excellence in the Arts. He has had solo shows at AFA Gallery in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Theodore:Art in Brooklyn, New York. He has also exhibited in number of group shows at galleries including Field Projects Gallery in New York; Parallel Art Space in Brooklyn, New York; Small Black Door in Queens, New York; 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, New York; Extra Gallery in New York, New York; Centotto in Brooklyn, New York; and The Space in Queens, New York. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 

Courtesy of Theodore:Art