World Warriors

Expanding on a very successful 2018 artistic series titled Woman Warriors, Minneapolis artist Kristi Abbott will introduce several male warriors to compliment the women in the exhibition, World Warriors. These original collages incorporate paper, glitter, transfer images, paint, pencil, printmaking and more to create intricate and layered portraits. The characters that Abbott chooses to create reflect strength and energy from personas around the world and across time. Imagined through costuming, photographs, paintings, world maps, and other elements, the portraits carry certain cultural markers distinctive to their geography and heritage, but their power and beauty speak universally to the essence of the female and male warrior. Abbott’s portraits are often embedded with hidden images, “small secrets” relating back to some part of the personality or biography of the individual, unlocking their story one detail at a time. 

About the Artist
From early childhood, Kristi Abbott has spent her life traveling between Sydney, Australia and the Twin Cities. She was seldom without a book, a Barbie doll and a set of coloring pencils. She was fascinated by art, travel, culture, and making things with her hands from a very early age and chose to study art, theatre and design throughout school and university. After a decade in the corporate arena and a graduate degree in Design and an Executive MBA she decided to leave the corporate life for one where she could pursue her true passion – to become a self-sustaining artist.