Christina Lorena Weisner Courtyard Installation
Schedule
Tue Apr 01 2025 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm
Location
300 Queen Elizabeth Ave, Manteo, NC, United States, North Carolina 27954 | Manteo, NC
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Aeronautical Sea Marks, an early kite and flight installation by artist Christina Lorena Weisner, will be on display in The Courtyard Spring of 2025. The installation will open at 6pm on Friday, March 7 and remain on display through May. This outdoor installation features several geometric structures made from lightweight, weather-resistant PVC pipe and deconstructed fabric from discarded beach umbrellas collected from local beaches by the artist. The cube-like structures vary in size, with some reaching up to eight feet. Their arrangement encourages viewers to move around and in between them, providing a dynamic experience of changing perspectives and spatial relationships within the courtyard. Structurally, the sculptures in the installation reference early kite designs including those used by the Wright brothers and Alexander Graham Bell to explore the principles of aerodynamics and to test their ideas about lift and control as it relates to flight. The installation is site-specific addressing both the historical significance of early flight experimentation and the unique environmental characteristics of the Outer Banks.
Artist Bio: Christina Lorena Weisner is a visual artist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the College of the Albemarle. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Sculpture and Bachelor of Arts (BA) in World Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University (2006) and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Sculpture and Ceramics from University of Texas at Austin (2010). In 2013 – 2014, Weisner was awarded a Fulbright Grant for Sculpture and Installation Art to Germany, where she worked on a series of site-specific sculptures based on the Ries Meteorite Impact Crater. Weisner explores complex relationships between objects, humans, and the natural environment, from the organic to the technological, drawing parallels between the vast and the microscopic, the subjective and the objective. Her work invites the viewer to consider the deep geological time of water, rocks, and the landscape as well as the more fleeting existence of living beings through objects, technology, scientific instruments, and the process of discovery. Weisner’s work helps widen our gaze without, however, bludgeoning or delivering any final word. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally.
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Where is it happening?
300 Queen Elizabeth Ave, Manteo, NC, United States, North Carolina 27954Event Location & Nearby Stays: