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KEVIN CHRISTISON | Bio

Education

• 1968 Born: Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
• 1990-92, 1998 California College of the Arts, BFA
• 1987-1989 University of Oregon, Art History

Awards

• 2002-2003 Fulbright Scholarship, Silpakorn University, Bangkok

Professional Experience

• 2004-2006 Instructor of Bronze Casting and Sculpture, Khon Kaen
  University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
• 1999-2001 Instructor of figure modeling, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA, USA
• 2000-2001 Guest Lecture, California College of the Arts, Oakland,
  CA, USA
• 2002-2003 Artist in Residence, Silpakorn University, Bangkok,
  Thailand

Selected Exhibitions

• 2006 Gruen Galleries, Chicago, IL
• 2005 Larry Evans gallery, San Francisco
• 2005 Hanoi Art Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam
• 2004 Art Center Gallery, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
• 2004 Larry Evans Gallery, San Francisco
• 2003 Rotunda Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
• 2003 Fulbright Exhibition, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
• 2001 Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery, San Francisco
• 2000 Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery, San Francisco
• 1998 Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery, San Francisco
• 1995 Larry Evans/James Willis Gallery, San Francisco
• 1994 Evans, Gropper, Willis Gallery, San Francisco
• 1993 Larry Evans Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
• 1992 Larry Evans Fine Art/ Rucker Fuller Co., San Francisco
• 1992 Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, CA
• 1991 Larry Evans Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Selected Public & Private Collections

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Di Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA
• The City of Brea. Brea, CA
• The City of Orinda, Orinda, CA
• The Staglin Family Vineyard, Rutherford, CA
• The Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, Vail, CO
• The Lillie Family Collection, Atherton, CA
• Otto and Yvonne Tschudi Collection, London, England
• Charles and Rebecca Daggs, Lafayette, Ca
• Dan and Deborah Dykes, San Diego, CA
• Chase Bailey, Incline Village, NV
• Chaim and Elisheva Gur-Arieh, Piedmont, Ca
• Michael Solomon, Sacramento, CA
• Jeffrey Forney, New York, NY
• Robert and Shelley Isackson, Hillsborough, CA
• Jeffrey Kaiser, Tiburon, CA
• Dan and Jo Ellen Levy, Moraga, CA
• Carole Lyons, Oakland, CA
• Frank Stahlschmidt, Orinda, CA
• Edward Storm, Cupertino, CA
• Joe and Laura Sweeney, San francisco, CA
• Deborah Randolph, Newport Beach, CA
• Ken and James Fitzsimmons, Piedmont,CA
• Laurie and Nigel Key, Short Hills, NJ
• Sam and Rosette Delug, Beverly Hills, CA
• John Vranka, Napa, CA
• Marvin Suomi, Beverly Hills, CA
• Denise and Norman Mitchell, Pasadena, CA
• Tim Danford, Alameda, CA
• Kit and Allen Prayer, Orinda, CA

 

Born in Silver Spring Maryland in 1968, Kevin Christison grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, later attending the University of Oregon, where he played inside linebacker for thefootball team and studied art history and eventually sculpture. After three years in Oregon, Christison moved back to the Bay Area, transferring to the California College of the Arts (formerly CCAC). He received his BFA in sculpture from the college in 1998, though he has been exhibiting his work professionally since 1991. Christison was awarded a Fulbright Scolarship in sculpture in 2002 and traveled to Bangkok, Thailand at the end of that year to begin his year-long Fulbright project at Silpakorn University. During this year he collaborated with many Thai artists, conducted lectures at Universities throughout Thailand, and finished the year with a major exhibition of sculptures and paintings at the Art Center Gallery, Silpakorn University. Christison continues to work in Thailand, dividing his time between Bangkok and San Francisco.

Christison’s work focuses on the human form, using additive and subtractive methods to alter his carefully rendered wax studies before casting them. This creates both fragmentary and expressive forms that capture the lines of the human body in dramatic states contortion or active gesture. The sculpture’s heavily worked surfaces are scored, hewn, And patinated to heighten their sense of raw vitality. His work often contains references to Greek standing Kouros figures and Roman busts, reflecting his ongoing fascination with classical figurative sculpture.

Christison’s work has been widely collected by private and corporate collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of modern Art and the diRosa Foundation Art Preserve.