Artist Reception: Life As a Mall Brat by Chris Rackley

Join us at Kolman & Reeb Gallery for the artist reception for “Life As a Mall Brat,” a Project Space Grant exhibition, created by Minnesota artist, Chris Rackley. You will be able step into Chris’s video art, see mixed media sculptures, and graphite drawings inspired by Chris’s childhood experiences as a self-proclaimed “Mall Brat.” Chris is excited to talk with you and share all of this with you as you enjoy tasty treats created by the artistic chefs of PF Café, our Northup King Building neighbor.

Chris uses drawings, sculptures, and an interactive video to explore his memories of a shopping mall in Duluth, Georgia. Chris recreates miniature versions of architectural elements of the mall—a place he wandered every day for ten years in the 1980s. These recognizable facades and embellishments are presented at different scales relative to one another, emulating the way memory can be fragmented and accompanied by a longing to reconstruct significant moments from the past.