Christopher Anthony Velasco, Untitled from the Fresh Donor series, 2018-2019, Archival Pigment Print, 32 x 25 inches.
Artist Talk Featuring Christopher Velasco
Day: Thursday, November 21
Time: 12:30-1:45
Location: Buchanan 1930
Christopher Velasco is a mixed-media artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He primarily works in photography that utilizes self-portraiture/portraiture, performance, and the documentation of the urban landscape, with an emphasis on the queer brown body incorporating horror/camp aesthetics.
Christopher Anthony Velasco, Portrait of the Mad Scientist After the Surgery, 2019, Inkjet print, 8 x 10 inches.
Christopher received his Master of Fine Arts from UC Santa Barbara in 2019. He received his BFA from California Institute of the Arts and also studied at Art Center College of Design and East Los Angeles College. Velasco is a former Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern where he interned at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (Now the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) and UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center and Library. Velasco is educator, instructor at CSSSA (California State Summer School of the Arts), mentor and film nerd.Along with his partner, Dakota Noot, started “Scream Queen” a series of group shows highlighting people of color, women and queer artists whose work explores horror and the abject. Both Noot and Velasco are also members of Monte Vista Projects.
Velasco’s work has been featured in exhibitions at Art Center College of Design, AD&A Museum, Avenue 50 Studios, California Institute of the Arts, Hibbleton Gallery, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Photo-L.A., and Vincent Price Art Museum. He was included in Where We Live: Student Perspectives, an exhibition associated with the Getty Museum’s Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection. In addition to his photographic work, he has also performed with Harry Gamoba, Jr. with Virtual Verite, Los Angeles Union Station, UC Santa Barbara, and Last Projects.
Christopher Anthony Velasco, Self-Portrait as the Mad Scientist-Before the Surgery, 2018, Inkjet print, 8 x 10 inches.
