Artist Talk with Christina A. West

Friday, November 22, 2024 • 12 –1 PM (PDT) • Online

Join us for a virtual talk with Christina A. West, the talented artist behind Strut, currently on view in the Igal & Diane Silber Vault Gallery. Strut complicates tropes of masculinity common to representations of the male body. Referencing the stumps and struts common to classical marble sculpture, West’s ceramic sculptures in Strut function as plinths and supports for models to interact with. These ceramic supports are modeled and glazed to suggest the visceral, while also encouraging awkward, inventive positioning of the body.

There will be an opportunity for Q & A following the presentation.

Christina A. West

Christina A. West is an artist whose practice is rooted in politics of the gaze, using ceramics, sculpture, video, and photography to focus on the male body. West earned her MFA from Alfred University (Alfred, NY) in 2006 and BFA from Siena Heights University (Adrian, MI) in 2003. After living in Atlanta for thirteen years where she taught at Georgia State University, West relocated back to the Midwest in 2022 where she is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has extensively exhibited her work across the country in venues such as the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), The Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo), Atlanta Contemporary, and most recently at the University of Kentucky Art Museum (Lexington). Her work has been supported by grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Virginia Groot Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and she has participated in residencies at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Clay Studio of Philadelphia