{"id":1244,"date":"2018-09-07T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T17:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/art\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=1244"},"modified":"2025-09-12T08:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:45:50","slug":"christopher-oliver","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/art\/staff\/christopher-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Oliver is a sculptor who has recently relocated to Seattle from Ithaca, New York.\u00a0 He received his BA\/Sculpture from Marlboro College and his MFA\/Sculpture from SUNY Albany.\u00a0 Working in a variety of media ranging from minute 3-D prints to large hand-built permanent outdoor installations that shape their environment over time, his work examines the fine line between sculpture and common objects through manipulations of scale and context.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver&#8217;s work has been exhibited both throughout the northeast and nationally.\u00a0 Most recently, he installed large-scale pieces at The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, New York, I-Park in East Haddam, Connecticut, and The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio.\u00a0 He has taught sculpture at Cornell, SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Albany, Marlboro College and Ithaca College.\u00a0 Oliver currently serves as full time sculpture faculty at Bellevue College. \u00a0\u00a0Images of his artwork can be seen on his <a href=\"https:\/\/cargocollective.com\/ChrisJOliver\">online portfolio<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1267,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1244","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/1244\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}