About

Christina Lorena Weisner is a sculptor and an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the College of the Albemarle. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Sculpture and Bachelor of Arts (BA) in World Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University (2006) and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Sculpture and Ceramics from University of Texas at Austin (2010). In 2013 – 2014, Weisner was awarded a Fulbright Grant for Sculpture and Installation Art to Germany, where she worked on a series of site-specific sculptures based on the Ries Meteorite Impact Crater. Weisner explores complex relationships between objects, humans, and the natural environment, from the organic to the technological, drawing parallels between the vast and the microscopic, the subjective and the objective. Her work invites the viewer to consider the deep geological time of water, rocks, and the landscape as well as the more fleeting existence of living beings through objects, technology, scientific instruments, and the process of discovery. Weisner’s work helps widen our gaze without, however, bludgeoning or delivering any final word. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, most recently at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design in Raleigh, NC, SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art), Winston Salem, NC and SteM Zwijgershoek / Mercatormuseum, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium.

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