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“Andachtild #701",  1987 Formica on birch plywood, enamel

on pine and poplar frame,  96 1/2 x 72 1/2"

Christian Eckart is best known for his Andachtsbild, Eidolon, White Painting and Icon-Type series. They all employ, to some extent, some of the materials and techniques traditional in religious artworks since the beginning of the Renaissance. In these works gilded mouldings and panels in configurations that recall altarpieces, cruciforms and so forth were presented in combination with contemporary materials such as plexiglass, formica and industrial paints.

Christian Eckart has been an instructor at The School Of Visual Art since 1994. He has lectured extensively throughout North America and Europe, realized many private commissions, organized group exhibitions and published a number of essays and articles.

Lives and works in
Brooklyn, N.Y., 1984 - present,
Berlin, 1997,
Amsterdam, 1998 - 2002,
Houston, 2003

EDUCATION
BFA
Alberta College of Art
Sculpture

MFA
Hunter College, C.U.N.Y.
Painting

One-Person Exhibitions:

McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas; Art of this Century, New York; Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany*; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France and Salzburg, Austria*; Sidney Janis Gallery, New York; Studio La Città, Verona, Italy*; The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada*; The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Canada*; The Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada*; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Canada*; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada*; Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Canada; Sabine Watchters Fine Arts, Brussels and Knokke, Belgium; Abbaye Saint-Andre, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France*; Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada*; University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut*; Rubin Spangle Gallery, New York; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary*, Canada; Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York; Galerie ’T Venster, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.

Museum Collections include:

The Guggenheim Museum, N.Y.; The Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.; The New York Public Library; The Brooklyn Museum; The Chicago Art Institute; The Detroit Institute of Art; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria; Musee d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France; The Australian National Gallery; The Eli Broad and Eli Broad Family Foundations, Santa Monica, California; as well as many others throughout North America, Europ