Chris Fritton – The Baltimore Catechism
Opening Reception and Artist’s Talk on Friday, March 15th / 6-9pm
The Baltimore Catechism is an unintentional, fanciful, imaginary revision of A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by Order of The Third Plenary Council of Baltimore (1885) wherein the authors posit the most fundamental and absurd physical and metaphysical questions, and postulate ever more fundamental and absurd answers. Originally intended as just an artist’s book, the project quickly took on a much wider scope, begetting large-scale woodcuts and accompanying prints, a performance component, and hand-set letterpress posters and broadsides. Capricious and inadvertently satirical, this eccentric exhibit features 12 large-scale prints and corresponding woodblocks, the artist’s book, and elements from the construction of the Catechism.
The opening reception for The Baltimore Catechism is free and open to the public. On view March 8th-April 12
A complete reading of The Baltimore Catechism will take place at a special "Midnight Mass" on April 5th at 11:30pm at WNYBAC. This event is also free & open to the public.
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