« Tatsuya Saito | Main | Karen Woodward Sarrow »
March 09, 2006
Christa Donner
Christa Donner is a Chicago-based visual artist who uses drawing to map out alternate models for bodily systems based on sensation and imagination. “Here’s to Haeckel: a fictional morphology” references the work of controversial biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, whose intricate illustrations of jellyfish and other organisms fused fact with fiction to support his own theories of symmetry and evolution. In her homage to Haeckel, Donner begins with one such drawing to propose a new evolutionary progression from marine invertebrate to human genitalia (from male to female) to invented future organism.
Donner’s large-scale wall drawings, three-dimensional paper installations, and small-press comics have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including major exhibitions at Kravets-Wehby Gallery (New York, NY), POST Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (Cleveland, OH), Gallery 400 (Chicago, IL), and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA). Her work is represented by Kravets-Wehby Gallery, New York. Whenever she can, Donner accompanies her art with public workshops focusing on self-publishing, body image, art and activism. More of her projects can be found online at www.christadonner.com
Posted by gharp at March 9, 2006 11:33 PM