Christopher W. Weeks

What: Art Exhibit: "Dreamers and Troublemakers"
When: April 5-15, 2010 (Opening Reception: 6-9pm April 8, 2010)
Where: HCC-Ybor Gallery (HCC Performing Arts Building)
Tickets: Free

Cover of "Apostle"

The work of Christopher W. Weeks deals with sardonic socio-political observations of the world around us, presented in a neo-pop, graphic, comic style.

Weeks joined the full-time faculty of Hillsborough Community College (Tampa, FL) in 2007 after having served in an adjunct capacity since 1999. He also has taught at St Petersburg College, the University of Tampa, and the University of South Florida (all also in the Tampa area) as well as New Mexico State University and Dona Ana Community College in Las Cruces, NM.

He earned a BA in photography in 1991 from the University of South Florida (specialization in photography) and an MFA in photography and digital imaging in 1996 at New Mexico State University.

Weeks has exhibited in numerous group and solo show across the country, including venues in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Albuquerque, San Diego and Tampa. Internationally, his work has been included in "Digital Top 30", a curated exhibition of digital artwork in Cuauititlan Izcali, Mexico in March 2007 as well as "Superheroes/Supervillians" in Chiang Mai, Thailand in November/December 2009.

In addition, his work has been reviewed in the NY Times (August 2007), In These Times Magazine (July 2006), and Boston's artsMEDIA Magazine (May/June 2005) amongst other periodicals.

He was awarded New Mexico State Art Research Grants in 1994 and 1995 and a Hillsborough County Individual Artist Grant in 2007.

During 2005-2006, Weeks illustrated the online comic strip "The Gargoyle" for pulp-heroes.com (now Rattrap Productions, LLC). Since then, his illustrations have appeared in Super Science Tales: Terror of the Metal Menace, Planet X: Terror from Across the Universe, Thrilling Expeditions Quarterly and other internationally distributed publications produced by Rattrap Productions, LLC.

He also produces his own online graphic novel entitled, The Apostle.

Arist's Statement

"My work has evolved from a long desire to tell stories. These stories become reflections of my perceptions, transforming the world around me into a series of bright visual hieroglyphs. Acting as both social commentary and contemporary fable, the result is, more often than not, a series of sardonic observations of the world I see, dealing predominately with social rites of passage and the conflicts and challenges of surviving in todayÕs world.

"Filtered through the twin lenses of imagination and memory, these issues become symbolic of the struggles which we all face in some form or another, therefore serving as both a catharsis and an exploration of events which forge us all both as individuals as well as a society.

"Like much art, my work seeks to act as a barometer of the cultural/social concerns, issues, mores, values, priorities and struggles which I see as pertinent to the society around me."