Exhibitions
Temple In The Weeds
Temple in the Weeds is a show about lying in those weeds. Hamrick has created a body of work revolving around his experiences laying around out in the weeds—capturing some of the sounds, sights, and colloquial observations that may occur both up close and far away, exploring the thoughts, sensations, and feelings found there; and rejoicing in the peace he discovered and the knowledge and vernacular of the weeds.
Temple in the Weeds recognizes neglected and unnoticed spaces that are just beyond the reach of our periphery and celebrates their nature as both sanctuary and voyeur vantage to the human experience.
Bells Gallery
Dothan, AL
Solo Exhibition
July 2024
B24:Wiregrass Biennial
The Wiregrass Biennial is a juried exhibition open to all artists living and working in the Southeast over 18 years of age. WMA’s call for artists began in December 2023 for submissions of original work completed within the last three years, and yielded a record number of applications from artists, which were juried by regional arts professionals: Amanda Thompson, Meredith Lynn, longtime art educator and consultant at AKT Artful in Tallahassee, Florida, and Carrie Jaxson, director and curator at the International Art Center at Troy University. B24: Wiregrass Biennial features work from 40 artists from 7 states.
B24: Wiregrass Biennial is a survey of works being created by artists from across the Southeast region, and the group show strengthens the arts community in the Southeast by bringing regional emerging and established contemporary artists to a local Wiregrass audience. For area residents and visitors, this year’s biennial will continue to build on the museum’s reputation for showcasing work from artists from different backgrounds through diverse mediums – from painting and sculpture, to installation and multimedia, large-scale works, and more – offering visitors the opportunity to learn from and connect with the art and artists of our time.
Wiregrass Museum of Art
Dothan, AL
Group Exhibition
July 21 thru September 28 2024
A poem illustrated through paper cut animation.
Written, directed, illustrated, animated, banjo, pump organ, etc: Christian Hamrick
Rainbow Weather
The title of this show is Rainbow Weather; the work is an evocation of rainbow weather--the theater between darkness and light.
With this show, it is important to understand that a rainbow cannot be approached; it is important to understand a rainbow is not an object and purely exists in the mind of the observer. My intention with Rainbow Weather is to create a landscape in which a rainbow may form in the mind of the observer.
I set out creating these works with the intention of rendering a landscape, and do consider Rainbow Weather to be such. Throughout July and August, while creating this show, I studied various atmospheric landscapes here in Alabama as well as closer to the equator on some islands. I observed storms both gentle and heavy in the distance coming and going, bright vivid light lower in the sky, and moments of instinctual certainty that a rainbow could very well appear. These experiences of rainbow weather were taken into the studio and used as a model for the work we see in the show.
Pictorially, the artwork found in Rainbow Weather does not literally depict scenes of clouds and rainbows or scientific illustrations of sunlight reflecting from raindrops at the perfect angle to then find its way into eyeballs. Rather portraiture, encounters, moments of darkness, moments of light render a landscape. It is in this landscape of feelings, superstition, assumption, character, description, and instance that I feel, instinctively, a rainbow could be produced.
With Rainbow Weather, my hope is that someone visiting this show does not consider the work to be a metaphor for rainbow weather; my hope is that someone considers rainbow weather to be a metaphor for the human experience.
Room 412
Birmingham, AL
Solo Exhibition
August 2022
Dust Til Dust
A glance at the substance of the human soul, a meandering of sorts through the fabric of life, a celebration of core, an opportunity and attempt to separate ourselves from ourselves and take a sincere moment to understand and explore our form without exaggeration, praise, or complexity.
Heritage Art Center
Columbus, GA
Solo Exhibition
May 2022
