Christine Wallers
Visual Arts
Chicago, IL
Christine Wallers is a nonrepresentational artist who values the imperfect, ritualistic, and contemplative process of hand-rendering. Creating temporal installations and intricate works on paper, she uses repetition, accumulation, and material multiplication whether she is working with thousands of copper wires and magnets, hundreds of handmade darts, or multiple modular paintings. She creates densities with delicate materials whose cumulative impact of layered fragilities troubles societal assumptions of strength, visibility, power, and resistance. Light and movement allow her works to constantly shift, suggesting a physical awareness and empathy in the viewer’s body. While her inspirations often come from atmospheric and phenomenological moments in nature, her art finds itself in a genre between conceptualism, abstraction, and formalism.