Kristen Cochran Reception

The Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries and Wright State University are proud to present KRISTEN COCHRAN—GOALS. Kristen Cochran’s recent work explores the pleasures, absurdities, and banalities of labor and the symbolic implications of laboring. Her transdisciplinary work shape-shifts in the forms of sculpture, drawings, video, and installations, and is often composed of quotidian materials such as bread, clay, clothing, shirt pockets, and copper plumbing—materials used as they relate to the gestures, needs, and aspirations of human beings at work.

About the Artist


Kristen Cochran is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Dallas, TX. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she moved to Texas to complete her M.F.A. at The Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in 2010. She has exhibited her work locally, nationally, and internationally and has been awarded residencies in Long Island City, NY, Mittersill, Austria, Banner, Wyoming, and recently completed a yearlong residency at The Center for Arts and Medicine at Baylor Hospital’s Sammons Center for Cancer Research. Kristen has taught extensively at universities and museums in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, including The University of Texas, Dallas, Texas Christian University, The Nasher Sculpture Center, and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Recent exhibitions include Fold Inat Lawndale Arts Center in Houston, Material Intensionat ex ovo projects, The LINEat Site 131, and Architectures of Aspiration (r.i.p.)at Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas, TX.

All Gallery events are free and open to the public. Visitor parking areas on campus are free, and parking at the Creative Arts Center is unrestricted on weekends. A dedicated parking space for galleries patrons is available in Lot 13. For more information, please contact the galleries at (937) 775-2978 or visit www.wright.edu/artgalleries.