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Christina Forrer
July 9 – August 9, 2020
Luhring Augustine is pleased to present an Online Viewing Room
showcasing Christina Forrer's 2019 limited edition artist's book.
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Christina Forrer’s vibrant weavings and works on paper explore and excavate conflict as the essence of all relationships -- between humans, animals, and the natural world at large. Fairy tales, children’s books, European folklore, Hollywood animation, and 20th century painting and design are some of the myriad influences that Forrer mines and incorporates into her entirely singular style and practice.
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Available Works
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Artist's Bio
Two of the largest weavings that Christina Forrer has made to date will be including in the upcoming iteration of Made in LA, the Hammer Museum’s acclaimed biennial featuring thirty Los Angeles based artists, with complementary presentations at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and The Huntington Library, Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA.
Forrer’s tapestries, paintings, and works on paper are at once fantastic and brutally honest, cartoonish and harrowing. Her work is a searing exploration of conflict, which she perceives as being the very core of all relationships, human as well as throughout the natural world. Forrer’s visual language is rooted in the folkloric, yet the raw emotion and essential truths revealed are blatant and undeniable. Each work by the artist presents an Id-driven ecosystem, synthesizing need, hatred, fear, jealousy, and violence into a battle of bodies, instincts, and wills.
Christina Forrer (b. 1978, Zürich) lives and works in Los Angeles. Selected solo exhibitions include Christina Forrer, Luhring Augustine, New York (2019); Grappling Hold, Swiss Institute, New York (2017); Cat Lady, The Finley, Los Angeles (2016) and Christina Forrer, Grice Bench, Los Angeles (2014). Group exhibitions include Midtown, Lever House, New York (2017); Unorthodox, The Jewish Museum, New York (2015); Some Masks, Grice Bench, Los Angeles (2015); and Can’t Reach Me There, Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis (2015). She is the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant (2014).