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Stools
unique studio works by Christopher Chiappa, 2010
presented in collaboration with Kate Werble Gallery, New York where his solo installation, High Fructose Corn Syrup, is on view through April 10.

Each stool is signed by the artist and each has been created in one of the following ways:

Solid Color Stools: Created by hand-carving a Styrofoam core, which is then coated with resin, applied with a spatula. Then these stools are hand painted with an oil-based enamel and finally red plastic feet are added, glued on with a tinted epoxy.

Christopher Chiappa Graphically Dipped stool

Graphically Dipped Stools: Base is created in the same manner as the solid color stools, but the paint is applied by dipping the stool repeatedly into large vats of oil based enamel, allowing the “water line” of the paint to create the graphic designs on the surface.

Christopher Chiappa Chainsaw Carved Pine stool

Chainsaw Carved Pine Stool: Using a chainsaw, the stool is carved out of a solid piece of pine.

Eyeball Stool: Same initial process as other Styrofoam and resin stools, but instead of paint a final layer of hand rolled resin balls are dyed and applied to the surface. This stool is the artist’s self-portrait.

American artist Christopher Chiappa (born 1970) obtained his BA from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1993, continuing his studies by attending the intensive residency program at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, in 1997. His work has been shown numerous times in group and solo exhibitions, most recently at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary international art fair (January 2010) and at the Kate Werble Gallery solo exhibition High Fructose Corn Syrup (March 2010). Chiappa lives and works in New York City.