Christian Rieben, M.F.A.
	Title:	Fine Arts Instructor
	Office:	Mundelein Center 900
	Phone:	773-508-8302
	E-mail:	crieben@luc.edu

Personal Information

M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz

Mr. Christian Rieben's work explores the contradictions inherent in the representation of three-dimensional imagery on a two-dimensional surface. The conflation of the pre-Modern idea of the painting as a window into another world with the Modern idea of the painting as an object and record of its own construction leads to imaginative tension-filled imagery. This art-historical content lies alongside Rieben's diaristic narrative, where metaphoric characters stand in for the artist himself in the emotional travails of his life.

Mr. Rieben shows his work in Europe and America.