"Maybe it was my Roman Catholic upbringing, or maybe it was growing up in the Cold War '80s, but my work has always been preoccupied with end-of-the-world scenarios. This tendency has become more pronounced as I find myself in a world that seems to be headed toward certain dystopia and ecological ruin. Despite this, my paintings are affirmations of a creative and primordial physicality that persists in the world with or without us. The landscapes presented here evoke geo-physical and biological processes in order to examine notions of emergence, interconnectivity, stratification, and transformation." Christopher Chiavetta is a visual artist who lives and works in Des Moines, IA. Originally from Rochester, NY, he attended the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts and graduated with a film studies degree from Georgia State University. Chiavetta creates abstract paintings that navigate our multilayered environment that is by turns primordial and manufactured- and increasingly virtual. He has lived in Boston, Atlanta, Honolulu and Nagoya, Japan.