CHRIS SAUTER
Known Universe, Constellation: Zubiate/Pell
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About: Chris Sauter lives and works in San Antonio. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 1996. Sauter exhibits nationally and internationally with exhibitions in Sheboygan, WI, New York, NY, Houston, TX, Dallas, TX, Paris, France, Miami, FL, Los Angeles, CA, Limerick Ireland. His works has been featured at many institutions such as the Musee d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne, France, The Drawing Center, NY, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, and PS1, New York. In 1999, he was chosen to participate in the Artpace international artist residency. Through the juxtaposition of disparate materials and images, extreme scale shifts, and the transformation of common objects into other recognizable objects Sauter’s work explores the links between nature and culture, the present and the primordial, the personal and the universal.
Photographer: Chris Sauter
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an ongoing series of small telescopes made from plywood mounted photographs of peoples’ bedrooms. The telescopes rest on shelves fabricated to “match ” each bedroom and the holes in the photo become a constellation of stars. Each photograph measures about 24″ x 36″
I am interested in exploring the links between biology and culture, the present and the primordial, the personal and the universal.
My principal strategies are, the transformation of common objects into other recognizable objects, extreme scale shifts, and the juxtaposition of disparate materials and images.
I have converted items from the home into landscapes or sites of natural and industrial processes to show the interaction of nature, culture, and origins, and constructed models of internal organs from common materials to position these connections within the body.
The body and the home are major themes. Because we understand the world through our bodies, it is the starting point. The home is an extension of our bodies and is the primary source for the production and propagation of culture.
Using architecture as a raw material, I often carve into walls to retrieve material needed to build other objects. It is a means to make literal connections between the architecture and the resulting object or to reveal aspects of their respective natures. What interests me about architecture is its constructed nature, that it is built primarily for the human body, and that it can be a potent stand-in for “the institution” whether it is the home, the gallery, or the museum.
Chris Sauter was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1971. He grew up on his grandparent’s ranch in Boerne, a small German town north of San Antonio.He attended the University of the Incarnate Word (then Incarnate Word College) where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993. Sauter later received a Master of Fine Arts degree from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 1996. He exhibits nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, Cueto Project, NY,NY, Finesilver, Houston, TX, Elizabeth Dee, NY,NY, Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris, France and Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Group exhibitions include EVA in Limerick, Ireland, Domicile: Public.Prive at the Musee d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne, France, Wall to Wall Drawing at The Drawing Center, NY, Drawing Outside the Lines at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ, Out of the Ordinary at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston and Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas at the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1999, he was chosen by Okwui Enwezor to participate in the Artpace international artist residency. Chris Sauter lives and works in San Antonio.