In Conversation: Christina Lorena Weisner + Chris Combs
Join SOLOS 2025 artist Christina Lorena Weisner and DC-area artist Chris Combs for a conversation about Weisner’s solo exhibition Sea Marks: From the High Arctic to the Atlantic. In addition to Weisner’s practice, the two artists will discuss their shared interest in art, technology, and scientific exploration and their experiences as contemporary artists working in proximity to scientific research.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
In Sea Marks, Christina Lorena Weisner presents sculpture, video, and mixed media works that capture the interconnectedness of the earth’s oceanic environments. Focusing on the ocean currents and weather patterns that tie the planet together, her work points to the irreversible impact humans have on the health of the planet and all of its interlocking systems.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Christina Lorena Weisner
Born 1982, Richmond, VA
Based in Kill Devil Hills, NC
Christina Lorena Weisner is a sculptor and an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the College of the Albemarle. 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 has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design (Raleigh, NC), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston Salem, NC), and SteM Zwijgershoek / Mercatormuseum (Sint-Niklaas, Belgium). In 2013-2014, she 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 received a BFA in Sculpture and BA in World Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University and a MFA in Sculpture and Ceramics from University of Texas at Austin.
Chris Combs
Born 1984, Virginia
Based in Washington, DC and Mount Rainier, MD
Chris Combs is an artist based in Washington, D.C and Mount Rainier, Maryland whose sculptural artworks both incorporate and question technologies. His show Supercycle (IA&A at Hillyer, 2023) focused on cycles of hype, such as AI and cryptocurrencies. The Next Big Thing (MoCA Arlington Innovation Studio, 2024) recreated Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa with E-waste that reacted to visitors’ faces and movements. Outsized Effects (Gradient Projects, Thomas, WV, 2023–4) included the room-sized Allegheny Data Company, examining data mining through the visual lens of coal mining. Industry Standards (McLean Project for the Arts, 2023) featured 18 works of reclaimed industrial components, reflecting on surveillance and environmental destruction. Madness Method, a public art collaboration with David Greenfieldboyce, was part of 2021’s Georgetown GLOW.
Chris is the 2025 Artist in Residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, and has been a four-time recipient of the DC CAH Arts and Humanities Fellowship program. He is a graduate of the Corcoran College of Art + Design and was a photo editor for National Geographic. He joined Otis Street Arts Project in 2021.
