About the Exhibition
By day, the suite takes its inspiration from the woods at night. The guest is surrounded by a fantastical forest that is equal parts Renaissance still life and Disney’s Fantasia. When the lights are down, the Nightwatch projection provides the guest with a kind of searchlight that slowly moves across the walls of the room. Wherever the light lands on the wall, it exposes the animated magic of the forest at night, reminding us that while we sleep, the thicket pulses and buzzes, teeming with life. The Nightwatch video is part of a new body of work recently on view at Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, You Must Lie Down and Remember the Forest, and relates to the artist’s largest video installation to date, The Coast of Industry, on display at Mass MoCa until September 22,2024.
Book your stay in the Nightwatch suite at 21c Cincinnati.
Chris Doyle, Nightwatch, 2024
Artist’s suite for 21c Cincinnati, Bentonville, Lexington
Custom wallpaper and carpeting, video projection, paint
About the artist:
In his animation-based practice, Chris Doyle takes E.M. Forster’s epigraph, “Only Connect” and reconsiders it for a digital age. Often highlighting the precarious moment we face in caring for the natural world, his narratives are constructed on themes of interconnectivity and the tension between the individual and the group in a culture fiercely devoted to progress.
He has exhibited widely at venues in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Queens Museum of Art, P.S.1 Museum of Contemporary Art, MassMoCA, The San Jose Museum of Art, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Tang Teaching Museum, The Wellin Museum of Art, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Sculpture Center, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, and as part of the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center and the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
His temporary and permanent urban projects include commissions for the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in Stockholm, Sweden, as well as for Melbourne, Australia, and Edmonton, Canada; within the U.S., he has received commissions from Culver City, California; Kansas City, Missouri; Tampa, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky; Austin, Texas; Times Square in New York City; and, most recently, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Wave Hill in The Bronx, New York.
He is the recipient of a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the 2014 Borusan Contemporary Art Collection Prize. His work has also been supported by grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, NYSCA, and the MAP Fund.
He received his Bachelors degree in Fine Arts from Boston College and his Masters in Architecture from Harvard University.
