Christina Forrer
Intervision, 2020
Cotton, wool and watercolor
49 x 43 1/2 inches
(124.5 x 110.5 cm)
Animated by an interest in fables and folklore, Christina Forrer’s vibrant weavings and electrifying works on paper explore the depths of human emotion. Depicted in her signature representational style of fantastical characters with cartoonish features, her work is rendered with a keen attention to boldness of color and richness of pattern. While many of her works showcase dramatic moments of explosive conflict, they also provide the viewer access into smaller, more personal terrors: private anxieties, internal tensions, and irrational fears. Her weavings are often enormous in scale, tableaux of psychological space populated by characters that may be human, animal, or vegetal. Retaining the figurative elements of her tapestries, Forrer's drawing practice is more widely varied, ranging from quick sketches and notations to fully articulated, discursive paintings on paper.
Christina Forrer (b. 1978, Zürich) lives and works in Los Angeles. Selected solo exhibitions include Christina Forrer: MATRIX 187, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (2021-2022); Christina Forrer: Feet of the Devil, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2019-2020); Christina Forrer, Luhring Augustine, New York (2019); Swiss in Situ | Christina Forrer: Grappling Hold, Swiss Institute, New York (2017); and Cat Lady, The Finley, Los Angeles (2016). Selected group exhibitions include Bianca Beck, Tamara Gonzales, Christina Forrer, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH (2021); THIS IS AMERICA, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany (2021); Made in L.A. 2020: A Version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA (2020-2021); Happy !, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, FL (2019-2020); Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2019); Niko Pirosmani: Promeneur entre les mondes, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, Arles, France (2019); and Unorthodox, The Jewish Museum, New York (2015). She is the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant (2014).
Christina Forrer
Hallowed Ground, 2023
Cotton and wool
67 x 78 in
(170.2 x 198.1 cm)
Christina Forrer
Cutaway, 2024
Cotton and wool
90 x 78 inches
(228.6 x 198.1 cm)
Christina Forrer
Serenade (Somnolent), 2023
Gouache, marker and pen on paper
17 x 14 inches
(43.2 x 35.6 cm)
Christina Forrer
Gesottenes und Gebratenes (Boiled), 2023
Cotton and wool
86 1/2 x 73 inches
(219.7 x 185.4 cm)
Christina Forrer
Distantly Afflicted, 2022
Cotton and wool
86 1/2 x 58 inches
(219.7 x 147.3 cm)
Christina Forrer
Elephant on Chair, 2022
Cotton and wool
52 x 42 inches
(132.1 x 106.7 cm)
Christina Forrer
Gretel, Gretel, 2022
Cotton and wool
72 1/2 x 102 inches
(184.2 x 259.1 cm)
Christina Forrer
Turnip Growing, 2022
Cotton and wool
120 x 80 inches
(304.8 x 203.2 cm)
Christina Forrer
Turnips Falling, 2022
Cotton and wool
130 x 94 inches
(330.2 x 238.8 cm)
Christina Forrer
Alone (in the night in the forest), 2022
Pen on paper
14 x 17 inches
(35.6 x 43.2 cm)
Christina Forrer
the ogre's wife needs will eat us if we do not kill her, 2022
Collage, watercolor, and pen on paper
14 1/8 x 16 1/8 inches
(35.9 x 41 cm)
Christina Forrer
Gebunden II, 2020
Cotton, wool, silk, linen and watercolor
155 x 108 inches
(393.7 x 274.3 cm)
Christina Forrer
Untitled, 2020
Gouache and watercolor on paper
15 x 11 inches
(98.1 x 27.9 cm)
Christina Forrer
Intervisions, 2020
Wool, cotton, linen, and watercolor
144 x 113 inches
(365.8 x 287 cm)
Christina Forrer
Gossips, 2020
Collage with watercolor
30 x 22 1/2 inches
(76.2 x 57.1 cm)
Christina Forrer
Pink Sky, 2020
Cotton and wool
48 x 37 inches
(121.9 x 94 cm)
Christina Forrer
Distant Affliction, 2020
Cotton, wool, and watercolor
102 x 60 inches
(259.1 x 152.4 cm)
Christina Forrer
Untitled (Wolves), 2020
Watercolor and pencil on paper
12 x 9 inches
(30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Christina Forrer
Untitled (with stripes), 2019
Cotton and wool
55 x 45 inches
(139.7 x 114.3 cm)
Christina Forrer
Untitled (brown background), 2018
Cotton, wool, linen, silk, and watercolor
123 x 88 inches
(312.4 x 223.5 cm)
Christina Forrer
Untitled (green background), 2018
Cotton, wool, linen, silk, and watercolor
119 x 80 inches
(302.3 x 203.2 cm)
Christina Forrer
Tongues, 2018
Cotton and wool
58 x 35 inches
(147.3 x 88.9 cm)
Christina Forrer
Untitled (Tongues), 2018
Watercolor and gouache on paper
22 3/4 x 15 inches
(57.8 x 38.1 cm)
Christina Forrer
Woman on Pink Floral Background, 2018
Watercolor and gouache on paper
15 x 12 inches
(38.1 x 30.5 cm)
Christina Forrer
Couple, 2016
Wool, cotton, and linen
48 3/4 x 69 inches
(122.5 x 175.3 cm)
Christina Forrer
Eight, 2017
Wool and cotton
27 x 45 inches
(68.6 x 114.3 cm)
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