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① Artwork:
Twin Flame
An example of the artist’s minimalist tendencies, this meticulous sculpture contains two rearview motorcycle mirrors that seemingly echo each other. Yet, they are not mirrored images but two different photographs of twin flames, angled slightly upward as if barely missing each other’s reflections. Through off-kilter dichotomies and poetic misalignments, this sculpture transmits a stoic desperation about — in addition to a playful satirization of — the cold world.
Equal parts humorous and morose, Christine Rebhuhn’s elegiac sculptures confront the viewer through stark, mundane structures. In her artworks, industrial rods, distorted instruments, and chrome with shiny, polished surfaces connote power as they silently reflect their viewers. Meanwhile, organic symbols, such as taxidermied songbirds and fragile vines, lay frozen within these forms yet reach an improbable and awkward harmony.
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③ Artist:
Equal parts humorous and morose, Christine Rebhuhn’s elegiac sculptures confront the viewer through stark, mundane structures. In her artworks, industrial rods, distorted instruments, and chrome with shiny, polished surfaces connote power as they silently reflect their viewers. Meanwhile, organic symbols, such as taxidermied songbirds and fragile vines, lay frozen within these forms yet reach an improbable and awkward harmony.
Christine Rebhuhn was born in 1989 in Mount Vernon, IA, and lives in Queens, NY. She earned her MFA in ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI (2015).
Rebhuhn has mounted solo exhibitions at Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York, NY; NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY; Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN; and Makeshift in Kalamazoo, MI.
She has participated in group shows such as the Gyeonggi International Ceramics Biennale in Incheon, Korea; Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn, NY; the Boiler in Brooklyn, NY; and Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN.
Her residencies include the Vermont Studio Center, Elsewhere, NARS Foundation, and Makeshift.
Rebhuhn's work has been published in ArtMaze Magazine, Maake Magazine, and Artspace Magazine.
