San Francisco based artist and director of 667Shotwell, Chris Sollars work revolves around the reclamation and subversion of public space through urban interventions, the results of which are integrated into mixed media video installations. Recent Awards include 2007 Eureka Fellowship Award, a 2007 San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Grant, and 2009 Headlands Center for the Arts residency. Sollars in 2008 completed C RED BLUE J which screened at SFMOMA on Election Day and Dec 2 and was included in CREATIVE TIME’s Democracy in America show that took place at the Park Armory. DOWNLOAD a pdf CV& Bio

   
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Actions:

Actions, Interventions, and Performances of Chris Sollars putting himself into public situations to bring attention to un-obvious and peculiar acts that subvert social political and individual constructs.
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Drawings:

Drawings ranging from the 2008 election to Hippied out Leaders. Sollars drawings are in the private collections of Andrea Rosen, Franco Noero, Michel Auder.

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Installations & Exhibitions:

Chris Sollars' Exhibitions and Installations ranging from Brautigan - Bjorn Again - Come Walk With Me - to
Pile of Trash.
 
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Photographs:

Photographs and Documentation of Actions.
All photos are available in Editions of 5 unless noted.
 
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Sculpture:

Sculptures including a series on Richard Brautigan, and Outfits from Actions & Interventions Pile of Trash.
   
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Videos:

Videos and documentation of Actions and Interventions. All videos are available in DVD Editions of 5 unless noted. Watch videos @ 667, YOUTUBE and VIMEO.
 
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C RED BLUE J

An experimental documentary feature that illustrates the complications of division during the 2004 Presidential election as it is manifested in one family. Director Chris Sollars, an artist living and working in San Francisco sets out to try and bridge the political gaps in his own family between a younger sister who works for the Bush Administration, a Born Again Christian father, and Lesbian mother. 79 min Watch C RED BLUE J on VIMEO!
www.C RED BLUE J.com
 
 

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