Christopher Gauthier says, "Avarice acknowledges the darker, destructive pull of power, and greed; luring the viewer with a formal aesthetic that coats corruption in the sickly sweet trappings of beauty. It tells the human story of a consuming desire to possess, use up and obliterate without regard to consequence, and without accountability to future generations. Avarice  anthropomorphizes catastrophic environmental situations through size and scale. Like ants, the monolithic machines chew the earth, rearrange and invert mountains, poison land and water, and spew toxic fumes into the sky."

Christopher M. Gauthiér teaches art at Illinois Central College in Peoria, IL.  He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University in Photography in 2003 and a Bachelors of Arts degree in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1997. 

Christopher has an active national and international exhibition record, including the Emergence exhibition at the Peoria Riverfront Museum in 2017 and the 2019 exhibition at Peoria Magazine. He regularly lectures on topics related to his personal work, photography, art education, autism and learning differences.  
 
Christopher sat on the Board of Trustees for The Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning (ICDL), the advisory boards of the US Autism and Asperger Association, and the Madison House Autism Foundation. His photography can be found in the permanent collections of the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson MS; Webster University, The Netherlands; and in the Koltsovo Airport, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation.

Website:
www.christophergauthier.com

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