John Christensen

John Christensen has installed 20 large commissions, and crafted environments for 30 theatrical productions presented worldwide. First felt, later thought - his sculptures provoke visceral responses and unexpected poetry.
About John Christensen

John Christensen - BIO
John Christensen is an artist working in Austin, Texas. Before 1990, he sited ephemeral works in rural landscapes of New York, Georgia and Texas. Since 1990, he has focused that sensibility on projects for theatre and for more permanent installations in the public place - often collaborating with choreographers and other design professionals, and, working with unique architectural spaces - making environments for 30 theatrical productions presented worldwide and installing 20 large commissions throughout the USA. First felt, later thought - the objects he sculpts provoke visceral responses and shifts in attention. In recent sculptures and reliefs he has evoked organic systems - fractals, biotic colonies, neural networks, wave interference patterns - to make poetic connections between phenomena in disparate fields. He exploits old and new technologies. He sustains a studio practice, going to his studio most days to make things.

John Christensen
Preferred Pronouns: he him
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Leaf, Pod & Samara

concrete    24 x 30 x 80 ft    1999

commission for the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, TX

 cast concrete sculptures and landscaping

Abstracted airborne plant-forms – a pod, a leaf and a winged seed – occupy an atrium at an international airport.  Landscaping used shade tolerant native plants.

Tumble

steel, oiled finish   5 x 6 x 6 ft   2018

commission for 801 Barton Springs Road, Austin, TX

steel sculpture on an urban sidewalk

Tumble’s restless form animates and complements the office building’s riparian theme.

Beatrix 44 B
bronze, s/s 44 x 9 x 9" 2022 This evolved from a model for an installation related to inertial navigation. Beatrix can translate as blessed traveler.

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