Inside the Art Mind

An interview with the painter, Christian Rieben, on the evening of his opening reception for the exhibition, Paradise Tossed, on view at the Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University.

I sat down with Christian and discussed with him about his influences, inspirations, processes, and more.

Rieben's work uses the landscape as a vehicle for storytelling, illustrating and embodying a fantastical world that is a bit Lewis Carroll and a bit Carl Jung. The characters and narratives of this world are a combination of contemporary, political and social discourses, and a mirror for personal situations; intermixing, and planted in a moment of subversive, existential awareness. All in the family, the characters in Rieben's work navigate to an atavistic world that is dark, chaotic, comic, and joyful—a dreamscape of lush imagery and macabre humor.

https://www.christianrieben.com

The official trailer and introduction for Inside the ART Mind, hosted by Michael Schuetz.

In this trailer episode, I introduce myself and prepare you for a journey into the realm of the mind of the artist.