Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg
Sculptors
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Collaborators Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg are best known for their meticulously crafted sculptures of recognizable objects, made out of unusual materials such as blue and green polystyrene foam. The things they depict are familiar but not wholly commonplace, like a Zamboni or a chain-link fence, and the sculptures' unusual materiality brings into question the objects' functions, their permanence or lack thereof, or their perceived role or symbolic place in society.

Hanson & Sonnenberg each received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Hanson received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Sonnenberg received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They have exhibited their work in numerous solo exhibitions including Store Gallery, London (2005); Cohan and Leslie, New York (2005); and White Columns, New York (2000). Originally from Canada, they now live and work in Brooklyn.