Background
Christian Eckart was born on January 9, 1959 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His father was a home builder.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Christian Eckart studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design from 1981 - 1984.
New York, United States
Christian Eckart was an instructor at the School of Visual Art from 1994 - 2002.
Houston, Texas, United States
Christian Eckart was an instructor at the Glassell School of Art from 2003 - 2005.
Houston, Texas, United States
Christian Eckart was a professor at the University of Houston.
Houston, Texas, United States
Christian Eckart was a professor at the Rice University.
Manhattan, New York, United States
Christian Eckart studied at the Hunter College, where he received a Master of Arts degree in 1986.
Christian Eckart was born on January 9, 1959 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His father was a home builder.
Christian Eckart enrolled at the Alberta College of Art and Design in 1981, graduating from the Department of Sculpture in 1984. Then he moved to New York, completing a Master of Arts in painting at the Hunter College in 1986.
In 1995 Christian Eckart received United States citizenship. He was an instructor at The School of Visual Art, New York from 1994 through 2002, the Glassell School of Art, New York of The Museum of Fine Art Houston from 2003 through 2005, and he held visiting professorships at both the University of Houston and Rice University. He has lectured extensively throughout North America and Europe, realized many private commissions, organized group exhibitions and published a number of essays and articles. He lives and works in Houston, Texas, United States.
Quotations:
"As I am an artist who emerged, arguably, at the end of the history of painting and the end of the history of abstraction my relationship to both is what I would call archeological and anthropological."
"I've always looked for materials that have these interactive or engaging properties, so as the viewer moves or the light changes, the paint might change color in a really subtle way."
Christian Eckart is married Gillian Davies.