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Chris Pavlik

b. 1977

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (* solo show)

2024  * The Quiet Stories, The Ada Gallery, Richmond, VA

2023   Untitled Art Fair, The Ada Gallery, Miami, FL

             Stimulate Spatial Phases, The Ada Gallery, Richmond, VA 

            * Wanderlust, The Ada Gallery, Richmond, VA

             Homebody, The Ada Gallery, Richmond, VA

 

            Assez/Enough, Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA

2022   Wallmountables, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC

            La Louisianne, Imperial Calcasieu Museum, Lake Charles, LA

            SPARK Exhibition, Fletcher Hall Gallery, Lafayette, LA

2021   PaperWest, Gittins Gallery at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

            Wild Trees II, Teche Center for the Arts, Beaux Bridge, LA

 

            Artist Choice, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC

            Twenty Years of Marais Press, Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA 

            Slammed!, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA

2020 The Healthy Artist, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA

           

            (Not) Open Studio Show, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA

           

             Group Show, The Hallway, Lafayette, LA 

2019  * The end, again, Cite des Arts, Lafayette, LA

 

            In My Own Backyard, Fletcher Hall Gallery, Lafayette, LA

            * That sinking feeling, Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA

            Group Show, The Hallway, Lafayette, LA

2018 * The last hundred years and other ghost stories, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA

             Art at the Shop, Ephemeral Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA

         

             And Now For Something New, Vol 1, LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA

                 Une Place a la Table, CODOFIL at Vermillionville, Lafayette, LA

 

            * The heart travels, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA

             Group Show, The Hallway, Lafayette, LA

2017  *Big weird, Cite des Arts, Lafayette, LA

             Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

             Powder Keg, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA

        

            * Dancing with sticks and stones, The Warehouse on Garfield, Lafayette, LA

             * The ghost of all the wondrous places, Gallery R, Lafayette, LA

             

2015   Apocalypse Now, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA

       

              Broadsides on the Bus, Moscow City Arts Commission, Moscow, ID

 

 

MURALS

"Holed", The Art Wall on Buchanan, Lafayette, LA 2018

"Flight of fancy", Firehouse 7, New Orleans, LA 2017

"Everybody's in the belly of some beast", CHRONOS Fitness, Metairie, LA 2016

"Fields of study", Lafayette Science Museum, Lafayette, LA 2016

"Bookends", BookPeople of Moscow, Moscow, ID 2015

"Chicken Run", Moscow Food Co-Op, Moscow, ID 2015

"The outside in", Sunflour Bakehaus, Detroit, MI 2002

"The endless storm", The Hurricane, Kansas City, MO 2001

 

PRESS

Hilliard Art Musuem, 20 Years of Marais Press: Imprinting a Campus & Collection. Lafayette, LA; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2022.

Jeremy Broussard, Art of the People: Public Art in the City of Lafayette. Lafayette, LA; Corvis Press 2016

Ramon Vargas, "Fat City's identity: Two-year street art initiative declared complete in Metairie", The New Orleans Advocate, Aug 2016

Kate Durio, ''5 New art projects to appear downtown", The Times Acadiana,  Dec 2015

Elizbeth Bradfield, "Words+Art on the Streets, Stalls, Walls...and Buses",  Terrain.org,  Sep 2015

Judy Seckler, “Feet of Clay at NCECA”, Ceramics Art & Perception,  Sep 2012

EXPERIENCE

Invited speaker, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Fletcher Hall, Feb 2021

Founder/Facilitator of The Hallway artist venue, Lafayette, LA, Apr 2018 - 2021

Preparator/Facilities Manager, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum at University of                                           Louisiana- Lafayette, Lafayette, LA,  Nov 2017 - Apr 2021

Atlier de la Nature Science and Art Festival, live art event, Arnaudville, LA, Nov 2019

Invited speaker, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Fletcher Hall, Oct 2019

Guest curator, "Dutch Kepler: Eyelands", Basin Arts, Lafayette, LA May 2019

"Rooster Teeth" live art event, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA, Oct 2018

"Rooster Teeth" live art event, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA, May 2018

"Rooster Teeth" live art event, Freetown Boom Boom Room, Lafayette, LA, Jul 2017

"Rooster Teeth" live art event, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA, May 2017

Guest lecturer, Episcopal School of Acadiana, Lafayette, LA, May 2017

"Tattooed Walls" live art event, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA, Apr 2017

Artist assistant, Robert Dafford, 2015 - 2017

Artist assistant, Hiromi Okumura, 2014-2015 www.hiromiokumura.com

Artist assistant, Beth Cavener, 2012-2013 www.followtheblackrabbit.com

 

AWARDS

ArtSpark grant, Lafayette, LA 2019

Percent for the Arts grant, New Orleans, LA 2017

Percent for the Arts grant, Metairie, LA 2016

Creativity Everywhere grant, Lafayette, LA 2015

 

EDUCATION

Washington State University, Pullman, WA '12-'13

Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA '10-'12

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO '95-'98

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