Adrift - Chris Willcox

Willcox's new series deals with human migration, specifically the global refugee and migrant crisis. In the artist's own words, "More than 65 million people around the world are now officially displaced from their homes by conflict, violence and persecution - the highest figure recorded by the United Nations since the Second World War. Adrift represents a loose and unspecified narrative that the viewer can piece together. The images are taken from media sources of the last few years, but they are also meant to represent the long and grim history of perilous ocean crossings, slavery, and human suffering."
 

About the Artist
Chris Willcox, professor of art and chair of the Art and Art History Department at Macalester College, teaches painting, figure painting, color and murals. Recently, Willcox had three comprehensive solo exhibitions: 90° South at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' MAEP gallery, Into the Woods at the Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, WI and The Beginning (Again) at the Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College. In 2018 she showed a new series of paintings titled Home in a solo exhibition at the Bloomington Arts Center and at Gallery 71 in a group exhibition. She is the recipient of numerous grants including a 2015 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant for creating a series of paintings at Historic Fort Snelling, and a George and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship in Painting.

This exhibition runs simultaneously with Sorta Like Conversation - Adam White in The Christensen Center Art Gallery

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday
9 a.m. - 7 p.m.