Chris Itsell

Originally from Arizona, Chris currently resides near Columbus, Ohio. His modern abstract sculpture work ranges from smaller intimate pieces to larger scale outdoor works for both private and public exhibitions and collections. Chris continually strives to promote his sense of exploration through the harmonious blending of materials like stone, glass, wood and acrylic. Various metals are always the foundational medium.

Though, not formally educated by an art institution, a glimpse at Chris’s work reveals his innate ability to envision, design and fabricate truly one-of-a-kind artworks. He has been recognized for excellence in his medium by several venues and juried competitions, notably, in a short period of time as a professional artist beginning in 2015. In 2020, he took 2nd place for ‘The Fabric of Mortality’ from Indiana State University Whitewater Valley Art Competition as well as 2nd place for ‘Uplift’, a public outdoor sculpture in St. Joseph, MO. In 2019, he received the Metal & Glass award from the COX Fine Art Center in Columbus, OH and in 2018 a juried donation to the Columbus Museum of Art for ‘Cobalt’.

Recent media coverage placed ‘War in Heaven’, an outdoor sculpture, in Phoenix Home & Garden Magazine for their ...

A.A.S. Landscape Design
A.A.S. Degree – Aviation

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Solo Exhibit - July, Hayley Gallery, New Albany, Ohio
2018 Solo Exhibit, November, Flight Safety International, Columbus, Ohio
2018 Solo Exhibit, July, First Commonwealth Bank, Columbus, Ohio
2017 Evocations, August, Sunbear Studio & Gallery, Alexandria, Ohio
Art in the Garden, July, Beautyview Gardens, Columbus, Ohio

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Olathe, KS Downtown Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit 2021-2022 ‘Uplift’ 36” x 20” x 120”
2021 Springfield, MO Springfield Sculpture Walk 2021-2022 ‘Speed of Light’, 36” x 24” x 120”
2020 Indiana University East "42nd Annual Whitewater Valley Art Competition" Sculpture ‘The Fabric of Mortality’ October 2020 - December 2020, Richmond, Indiana
2020 Dogwood Arts Art in Public Places Exhibition, Public Installation of ‘Evocation’
April 2020 – March 2021, Knoxville, Tennessee
2019 A Perspective from Nature, Sculpture `Kinetic`
July-Aug, Cox Fine Art Center, Columbus, Ohio
2019 St Joseph Sculpture Walk, Public Installation of `Uplift`
June 2019 – May 2020, St Joseph, Missouri
2019 Rosemary Beach Sculpture Exhibition, Public Installation of `Synapse II`,
May 2019 – Jun 2020, Rosemary Beach, Florida
2019 Columbus Arts Festival, Columbus, Ohio
2018 Jubilee of Fin...