The Birds of Mars Digest (2020-present) is a usually monthly digital publication documenting my current art, music and film related activities.
Number Twenty-one (February 2024)
[24-24] Color Key 2
[24-25] Color Wheel 3
[24-35] Snowy Day
Number Twenty (January 2024)
–Music Paintings
Number Nineteen (March-December 2023)
–Hummingbirds (Woodstars)
Number Eighteen (January-February 2023)
–Woodstar Cafe Art [01-15]
–Drawings [1-5]
Number Seventeen (November-December 2022)
–Drawings [256-265]
–Video Show #16-17
“Song Seeds”
Number Sixteen (September-October 2022)
—Noho Pop Paintings [53-69]
—Drawings [200-255]
–Video Show #13-15
Number Fifteen (August 2022)
—The “8 by 10 Series” Concludes
—All Noho Pop through August 31, 2022
—Video Show #10-12
Number Fourteen (June-July 2022)
—Cruella Paintings
—Video Show #2-9
Number Thirteeen (May 2022)
—Music Paintings [75-81]
—Video Show #1
Number Twelve (March & April 2022)
—Sternum Boxes, Music Paintings & Poe & Hemingway [62-73]
Number Eleven (February 2022)
—“Colorcubes” [50-61] with comments by Chris Gentes
—Lighting Tests
Number Ten (January 2022)
—The 8 by 10 Series of paintings [41-49] with comments by Chris Gentes
Number Nine (December 2021)
—The 8 by 10 Series of paintings [33-40] with comments by Chris Gentes
—Conversations about music with Daniel Wininger and Kat Alexander.
Number Eight (November 2021)
—The 8 by 10 Series of paintings [19, 25-32] with comments by Chris Gentes
—Conversations about music with Tommy Twilite and Sam Gas Can.
Number Seven (Apr-Oct 2021) (first digital issue)
—The History of the Birds of Mars Digest
—The 8 by 10 Series of paintings [01-24] with comments by Chris Gentes
—The 12×12″ series of paintings [01-37] with comments by Chris Gentes
—City Collaboration (2013) with Sam Gas Can
Birds of Mars Digest #1 through 6 were printed in low numbers. Very rare.
Other Writing
The Birds of Mars Reader (2019). Documents the creation of a series of paintings and various activities related to a 2019 Birds of Mars performance.
The “Alt Lit Library” (2020): Seven Books Written in Seven Months.
The Two Week Book, Alt Lit Now!, The Door in the Woods, Ghost Town, Coffee Coffee, Movieland, and Seven Movie Scripts.
Chris Gentes
413.588.1040
ChrisGentesArt@gmail.com
Selected Art Exhibitions/Video/Events
1991-1994 Planet 3.9 Video Show, BNN-3, Boston Cable. A weekly video arts show. Producer, editor.
1992 Lamproneiro: Art & the Lucid Dream, Fine Art Exhibition with the BVC at FRB Gallery, Boston. Artist.
1993 Mona Lisa Project, Moraine Gallery, Jamaica Plain. Artist.
1995 Frontierism: A Return to Culture, Transportation Building, Boston. Director, producer, artist.
1996 Somakatologian: Mind Physics, Group Exhibition with the Boston Visionary Cell. Artist.
1998 Group Exhibition including Paul Laffoley, Mark Bode at Pahana Gallery, Northampton. Curator, Artist.
1999 Retrospective of paintings at Pahana Gallery, Northampton. Artist.
2005 Bird photography exhibition with 17 exhibitors at Forbes Library. Concept, curator, photographer.
2010 “Best of Cottage Street” Easthampton Plein Air Festival. Artist.
2011 Scenes of Northampton at the Woodstar Cafe. Artist.
2012 “Dreamscapes” at Woodstar Cafe. Artist
2013 “Piece of Cake” Group exhibition at FOE Gallery, Northampton. Artist.
2013 “Recent Stencil Art” at Salon 241. Artist
2014 Dust Bunny Exhibition for Cirque/Meat for Tea. Group exhibition. Curator, Artist.
2014 “Recent Work” Sam’s Pizza. Artist.
2016 “Changing” Group show Greenfield Community Center. Artist.
2017 Paradise City Arts Festival, Northampton. Exhibitor.
2018 Birds of Mars Multi-Media Event, The Parlor Room, Northampton. Organizer, filmmaker, musician.
2019 Birds of Mars Multi-Media Event, The Deuce, Northampton. Organizer, filmmaker, musician.
2019 Birds of Mars, Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton. Organizer, filmmaker, musician.
2022 The Birds of Mars Video Show. Scenes & Music for Films. A weekly documentary of interesting things.
2023 Woodstar Cafe. Recent Art. Ongoing Exhibition.
Selected Publications
1996–1997 Shape of Art/Art Now. Zine format.
2010 “Fourteen Watercolors of Vegetables and Fruits” Art catalog of recent series.
2011—2014 TagoZine, Street Art photo journal (digital only). Publisher, editor, photographer, writer.
2012 “Northampton Dreamscapes” Art catalog for Woodstar show.
2016—2017 Modern Pochoir. Art catalogs for a series of artworks using an airbrush.
2019 “The Birds of Mars Reader” A book about the Birds of Mars multi-media project. Edition of 20.
2020 “The Alt Lit Library” A series of collectible ‘art books’, each written in two weeks. Editions of 50.
2020—2021 Birds of Mars Digest (printed). Editions of 50.
2021—present Birds of Mars Digest (digital). A publication which documents all of my artistic activities.
Chris Gentes 