About

Chris Wawrinofsky is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. He has taught at a variety of institutions including, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Otis College of Art and Design. While living in New York he worked as a carpenter, sign painter, Xmas tree seller and fabricator for a variety of artists. This broad range in work experiences has shaped his studio practice allowing Chris to hone his craft. Currently, he is the Art Studio’s Manager at Occidental College where he operates his DIY foundry and raku kiln. When faced with the task of investigating what an artist does, his father quipped, “Why not give ghost tours, but contextualized in art?” and went on to suggest the name the venture: “The Ghost Art Walk Tour.” In 2006, in the Great Basin desert near the Utah/Nevada border, some 20 acres were purchased for the modest sum of $2000. This gesture was intended to provide a solution to the problems associated with storing large scale works. This site has since grown into a sprawling sculpture graveyard, an unnamed amalgam of ceramic, steel, cast aluminum and lumber at which Chris’s parents still help hand mix cement foundations. Visitors can take a walking tour of the artworks while reflecting on ghosts with gambling debts accrued at the nearby casino’s in Wendover. Alternative pathways can be seen as a parable of the demons of westward expansion. All of this can be found at The Ghost Art Walk Tour, the home of the High Sierra Salver.