Christina Forrer
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Christina Forrer, Regula ZH, 2021, cotton and wool, 72 x 42 inches. Photo: Nathan Keay.
Christina Forrer, Wulp 2, 2021, cotton and wool, 80 x 50 inches. Photo: Nathan Keay.
Christina Forrer, Solid Sky, 2017, cotton, wool, watercolor, 31.5 x 36 inches
Christina Forrer, Watering Mountain, 2021, cotton and wool, 72 x 42 inches. Photo: Nathan Keay.
Christina Forrer, November Calling April (Zurich/Chicago), 2021, cotton and wool, 37 x 37 inches. Photo: Nathan Keay.
Christina Forrer, Zu Tisch, 2020, cotton and wool, 39 1/2 x 36 inches. Photo: Nathan Keay.
Christina Forrer, Sunset Connection, 2020, cotton and wool, 31 x 37 inches. Photo: Nathan Keay.
Christina Forrer, Winter, 2021, cotton and wool, 21 x 14 inches. Photo: Nathan Keay.
Christina Forrer, Intervisions, 2021, watercolor, graphite pencil and gouache, 50 1/2 x 63 3/4 inches. Photo: Nathan Keay.
Christina Forrer, November calling April (Zurich/Chicago), 2021, marker on paper, 22 3/4 x 26 inches. Photo: Nathan Keay.
Christina Forrer, Conversation, 2018, cotton, wool, and watercolor, 32.5 x 37.5 inches
Christina Forrer, Cloud, 2018, cotton, wool, watercolor, and silk, 52 x 40 inches
Christina Forrer, Cloud (small version), 2018, cotton, wool, watercolor, and silk, 7 x 6 inches
Born in Zürich, Switzerland, and based in Los Angeles, Forrer makes tapestries that are psychologically charged, but often by means of energetic interaction dynamics suspended in a fraught narrative. Brilliant, raucous, warm, and biting, they bring traditional Swiss textiles into a thoroughly contemporary comic context, inside jokes looming large in her brightly colored woven surfaces. Recent institutional exhibitions include Matrix 187 at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT (2021–2022), Christina Forrer: Feet of the Devil at Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2019–2020), Grappling Hold at the Swiss Institute, New York (2017) and Unorthodox at the Jewish Museum, New York (2015).
Selected Press
Exhibitions
- EXPO CHICAGO 2023 April 13 - 16, 2023
- Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 December 1 - 3, 2022
- Moki Cherry Communicate, How?: Paintings and Tapestries, 1967 - 1980 September 3 - October 9, 2021
- Christina Forrer, November Calls April April 30 - June 19, 2021
- Cosmic Meteorites & Other Burners July 17 - August 22, 2020
- Christina Forrer March 16 - April 21, 2018