Artist Lecture: Chris Sollars
Thursday, March 19, 2015, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Chris Sollars' art involves the reclamation and subversion of public space through interventions and performance. His work can be experienced in two ways -- through the witnessing of, or participation in, a performative event, or later viewing the documentation of the event in a gallery context via installations that combine photography, video and sculpture. Sollars' process is physical and conceptual as he juxtaposes dissimilar elements to create unexpected forms that are often comedic. Free.
Location:
Fine Arts Building, Room 287
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Sponsor:
Art Department
Contact:
Art Department
Phone:
415-338-2176
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Sollars received a Master of Fine Arts from Bard College and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2013, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has received a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission Grant, Eureka Fellowship Award, Artadia Grant, Headlands Center for the Arts Residency and has exhibited in venues nationally and internationally. His work is in the permanent collection of the Berkeley Art Museum, and his Left Behind sculpture series was most recently published by Publication Studio in 2013.