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Climate disruption, the melting of the polar caps and glaciers, the scorching heat in other regions and the scarcity of drinkable water, have been on Christel Dillbohner's mind for some time. She aims to participate visually in the environmental discussion about change, loss and prevention. These concerns have motivated her research of melting glaciers and pack ice in the Arctic and Antarctica. Her work is an exploration of environments that are both physical and mental, suggesting a parallel between physical landscape, created over millions of years by the movement of the earth, by wind and water, fire and soil, and our own inner landscape, formed by layers of personal experiences gathered over the course of a lifetime.
Christel Dillbohner currently lives and works in the Bay Area; other examples of her work were featured in NUMU's 2017/2018 exhibition Waterlines. She was born in Germany and studied at Cologne Art School, Kolner Werkschuke, where she received her MFA. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts through LACE, Los Angeles.