Bio

Christian Wechgelaer (he/him) is a printmaker and interdisciplinary artist from Albany, NY. Christian received his MFA from the University at Albany, and his BFA concentrating in Printmaking and Photography, from the College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY. Christian has participated in residencies at Directangle Press, Bethlehem, NH, and 50 4th Street Residency, CollarWorks/ChaShaMa, Troy, NY, and several recent exhibitions including Americana/ble, kiddie pool, Albany, NY; The Windows I’m Floating in Between, The Green Lodge, Chatham, NY, and New Drawings, Kentler Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY. In 2026, Christian completed an assistantship at the Frogman’s Printmaking Workshops in Iowa City, IA, and also received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, through Saratoga Arts, Saratoga Springs, NY, culminating in a solo exhibition.

Artist Statement

Combining printmaking, drawing, and sculpture, my work explores how identity and memory are mediated through digital images and techno-capitalism. Pulling from social media trends nostalgically glorifying the early internet, video games, and my own personal memory, I montage together signs, symbols, and other signifiers through a drawing process similar to collage. In these diagrammatically layered drawings, I reference the endless circulation of images on the internet. However by employing negative space and facilitating a loss of information through digital editing, screen printing, and experimental transferring techniques, the work empties-out of the content it is made from, embodying wistfulness and erasure. These hybrid prints are then installed using industrial and infrastructural materials, which allows the work to have a greater presence, while also raising associations to unseen, skeletal, frameworks. What results are works that give shape to the ghostly traces left behind from the prolonged experience of digital technology.