Knock Wood | Christine Rebhuhn

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Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency
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Knock Wood, Christine Rebhuhn (New York, NY)

October 2016. Wood column, glass vase, found publications, key.

Knock Wood brings together handcrafted and industrially fabricated objects often found in the peripheries of mundane, American life. Rebhuhn considers the way these objects overlap and find affinity, stretching a line of connection across disparate things and ideas. Language and images become operative materials, using the physical structure of a wooden column to format the experience of reading.

Rebhuhn sees her work as part of a “lineage of surrealism, often with a comedic sensibility.” These displaced objects are absorbed into an arrangement, negotiating nonsense within the deeply logical.

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Christine Rebhuhn
Christine Rebhuhn

Christine Rebhuhn earned an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2015 and a BA from Kalamazoo College in 2011. Her work considers the way that objects overlap, stretching a line of visual connection across disparate things. She brings together found, handcrafted and industrially fabricated objects that come from mundane American life, lifted away from their place in the periphery. She recently participated in programs at the New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS), Makeshift Studio Residency, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited at inCube Arts in New York, New York, and at the 2015 Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale in Incheon, Korea.

During her residency at Elsewhere, Rebhuhn created Knock Wood.

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