September 13 - December 14, 2012
In Conversation: Swiss Bliss curator Chris Larson and Yesomi Umolu, Walker Curatorial Fellow Thursday, September 13 at 6pm Eastlund Room, CLC building, 2nd floor
Reception in the Olson Gallery following the talk.
A group exhibition featuring six artists from Switzerland. These artists - working in photography, sculpture, drawing and installation - resist, subdue, deconstruct, explore, escape, celebrate and critique the overly breathtaking but sometimes threatening landscape that surrounds them.
Artists include: Tobias Brunner, Werner Casty, Christian Herter, Mara Muller, Martin Walch, and Herbert Weber
Exhibition Essay by Yesomi Umolu
Bethel Galleries
Chris Larson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he still lives and works as an artist and Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. In 1990, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Bethel University, St. Paul, MN, and in 1992, a Master of Fine Arts at the Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT. His sculptural work has been shown nationally and internationally at magnus muller Gallery in Berlin, The Walker Art Center, The Rochester Art Center, Burnet Art Gallery at Chambers at the Luxury Art Hotel in Minneapolis, MN, among other. Chris Larson is represented by magnus muller, Berlin
(www.magnusmuller.com).
