CLICK HERE to read a review of the Explicit Content show at the Mindy Solomon Gallery. The show is up until May 19...if you're in the St. Pete area it's worth a stop! More images of my work in the show have been posted on the "gallery" page of this site.
Coming soon! images of new work from exhibitions that open in April. The image on the left is from a new installation titled "I Spy," to be shown in the group exhibition "To Be Human" at Tinney Contemporary in Nashville, opening April 6th. The work on the right will be shown at the Mindy Solomon Gallery in the group show "Explicit Content" opening April 14th.
Coming Soon!
January 20, 2012. A group show at the Center for Visual Art in Denver titled "Out-Figured" opens February 2nd. I'll be showing with a group of great artists: John Coplans, the Corvo Brothers, Irene Delka McCray, Jenny Morgan, and Marie Vlasic.
January 8, 2012. Registration has opened for the Archie Bray Foundation's fall workshop series. CLICK HERE for more information about the workshop I'll be teaching in September.
Dec. 30, 2011. CLICK HERE to see some new work. It's an on-going series of photographs I'm calling "The Secret Lives of Sculptures."
Dec. 2011. I'll be going to Seattle soon to install my work for a group show at the Bellevue Art Museum titled Push Play. This exhibition will be up from January 19th to June 17th, 2012 and is a part of this year's NCECA Conference. CLICK HERE for more information.
I'm giving a lecture at 7 pm this Thursday, October 6th, at ASU. Stop by if you're in the area!
Aug. 9, 2011. Here's a peek at the "Surrogate" series that I made at The Clay Studio this summer. Look for them in an upcoming show titled "Made at the Clay Studio" this fall.
July 21, 2011. Thanks to the great audience who came out for my talk tonight at The Clay Studio! For those of you who missed it, CLICK HERE to see an excerpt of the presentation.
July 2011. Until mid-August I'll be working at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia as a Guest Artist in Residence!
I just finished some new individual sculptures that reflect my love of color. CLICK HERE to see more images.
Issue 84 of Ceramics Art and Perception printed a review of a show I participated in last year called Pretty Young Things.
June 2011. CLICK HERE to read this short article about my show in Jacksonville in On View Magazine. On View Magazine is an on-line art publication that covers activities happening in art museums and other related institutions across the state of Florida.
The Bemis Center recorded a podcast with me last summer when I was in residence, and that interview is now online...CLICK HERE if you would like to listen to it. (I recommend using the iTunes option if possible.)
I'm gearing up for my next show, which will take place at the UNF Gallery at the MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART in Jacksonville, FL. It runs from May 19-August 28th, 2011.
April 2011. Home sweet home. 17 figures from the show at Trace Gallery are back in the studio until the next show...
March 29, 2011. Things got a little out of hand at the NCECA installation today...
March 2011. If you're at the NCECA conference in Tampa this year, stop by the West Tampa Center for the Arts and see the show I'm doing with my colleague Mark Burleson.
March 2011. For those of you who have wondered, this is how I get so much work done.
Seriously, this was taken during the interactive portion of my demo at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
In addition to the MOCA GA show, I also have a solo show that just opened at TRACE GALLERY in Athens, GA. Here's a great photo taken on opening night by Carlo Nasisse.
February 13th, 2011.
I'm currently in a show at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia called "Movers and Shakers: MOCA GA Salutes the Rising Stars of the Georgia Art Scene." CLICK HERE to watch a short video that they recorded of me talking about the work in the show.
Check out the latest issue of Sculpture Review Magazine. The article by Cynthia Nadelman mentions my work along with many other great artists working with the figure.
Here's a shot from the opening of my SECAC fellowship exhibition in Virginia Commonwealth University's FAB Gallery.
10 October 2010. Getting ready to ship work out for my show at VCU.
Check out the great brochure that Todd Marsee designed for my new body of work titled "What a Doll: the Human Object as Toy."
CLICK HERE to view it as a PDF.
Email me at christina@cwestsculpture.com if you would like a hard copy.
July 4, 2010: Penis production.
I'm working at the Bemis Center in Omaha, NE through July. Stay tuned for new images of work in progress...In the meantime, check out the Bemis residency program HERE.
The newest edition of the online journal *Harlot* is out, featuring an article that I wrote about my work titled "Bits and Pieces: A Sculptor's Reflection on Meaning." Check it out HERE
April 2010. Emerging Artist Presentation at NCECA.
This is what happens when you give a girl a rubber butt. (Mutter Museum, April 2010)
New-ish work finally photographed. (Photo credit: Eddie Ing)
The Red Lady spotted in attendance at the grand opening of Trace Gallery in Athens, GA. She's so social. I can't believe she's related to me.
New work in progress. February 2010
It's not pretty, but it works. Shipping out tomorrow for the Mutter Museum.
Morning drive through Atlanta, on the way home from the kiln. As you can tell from her expression, the gal up front doesn't get out much.
drying tents
MANY THANKS TO SECAC!!!
The Southeastern College Art Conference has named me their 2009 FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT and will generously be supporting my next body of work titled "WHAT A DOLL: THE HUMAN OBJECT AS TOY."
To the studio...
CLICK HERE to read the Press Release.
CLICK HERE to check out the brochure printed for my show at Siena Heights University. It features a brilliant article by Peter Barr and a stunning design by Todd Marsee. If you're interested in getting this in hard copy, send me an email and I'll see what I can do!
The little people who live on my desk. They look nothing like the ones who live in my head.
"He has big balls, she has big balls, but Christina West seems to have the biggest balls of them all."
I don't know what to say...just CLICK HERE.
Workshop fun at Santa Fe Clay! CLICK HERE to see images from the week.
NEW WORK, Dec. 2008, pencil and gold leaf on plaster, 18" x 12" x 2"
Wisconsin studio, 20 June 2008
Shadows and Fog, my exhibition at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, is up from March 1st until April 5th, 2008
CLICK HERE to read the ArtVoice cover story by Lucy Yau.
ART, pencil on paper, 17" x 24", October 2007
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