Christina Forrer

Born in Zürich, Switzerland, and based in Los Angeles, Christina Forrer makes tapestries that are psychologically charged, but often by means of energetic interaction dynamics suspended in a fraught narrative.  Brilliant, raucous, warm, and biting, they bring traditional Swiss textiles into a thoroughly contemporary comic context, inside jokes looming large in her brightly colored woven surfaces.  Recent institutional exhibitions include Grappling Hold at the Swiss Institute, New York (2017) and Unorthodox at the Jewish Museum, New York (2015). 

Image:

Christina Forrer, Dear People from the Mountain, 2019

Cotton, wool, and watercolor

50 x 54 inches

Courtesy of Corbett vs. Dempsey’s Gallery 

Photographer Robert Chase Heishman