ReVision - Christina A. West

Описание: ReVision
Christina A. West

December 13, 2025 - February 14, 2026

Christina A. West is an artist who uses sculpture, video, and photography to focus on the male body. West earned her MFA from Alfred University (Alfred, NY) in 2006 and BFA from Siena Heights University (Adrian, MI) in 2003. After living in Atlanta for thirteen years where she taught at Georgia State University, West relocated back to the Midwest in 2022 where she is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has extensively exhibited her work across the country in venues such as the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), The Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo), the American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA), and Atlanta Contemporary. Her work has been supported by grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Virginia Groot Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and she has participated in residencies at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, The Vermont Studio Center, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia, and the Center for Contemporary Ceramics at Cal State Long Beach.

ReVision is a solo exhibition by Madison-based artist Christina A. West that brings together the many facets of her multimedia studio practice into an evolving installation that will be altered by the artist throughout the duration of the exhibition. Featuring sculpture, video, photography, and drawing, the exhibition centers the male body as a lens through which to reconsider the histories, power dynamics, and cultural expectations embedded in the act of looking.

The title ReVision reflects West’s commitment to “looking again”—to revising, adapting, and reimagining. Her works revisit art historical representations of the body, from the pietà to Muybridge’s motion studies to iconic classical forms like the Discus Thrower, reframing them through contemporary questions of gaze and embodiment. This approach mirrors her studio process itself: a generative practice built on creating numerous parts and experimenting with endless ways they might interact.

By translating this open-ended method into the gallery, West preserves the sense of possibility and flux that animates her studio. The installation’s lack of fixedness echoes the shifting, multifaceted nature of our own embodied experiences—how our perspectives evolve, how meaning accumulates, and how looking is never neutral, but always in motion.