| Pulpit: Three Pulpitalities
stills from video
36" x 18"
2007 | | |  | Reverend Roughstock Sermon: Airplanes and Perfection
performance, including old testament pages folded into paper airplanes, sermon text, stump, trash can
11" x 14" print
2006 | Kjellgren Alkire Kjellgren Alkire was born, baptized and raised in suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona. During a decade of exile away from the desert, he pursued his spiritual quest for the perfect fish taco, traveling Andean countries playing stringed things, studying homiletics with liberal Lutherans, and working for nonprofits in Minneapolis. He lives in a dusty tan East Valley condominium with two pug dogs and the redheaded daughter of two organic dairy farmers and a newborn.
Kjellgren Alkire's graphic and interactive installations focus on the meaning and function of Christian subculture. Having been trained as both a printmaker and preacher, he bends these two disciplines into a singular fine art practice, constructing spaces and events referential of carnival games and religious gatherings. |
