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Christina McPhee’s work investigates ways of knowing through methodologies of pattern discognition, translation, and transcription. Her forensic observations research into multiple language systems, layering visual and sonic, scientific and poetic data within drawing, painting, video and photography. In collaboration with sound artists, poets, composers, and field research scientists, she creates works for performance, installation, and exhibition, especially concerning climate futures, environmental histories, and spirituality.

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"Christina McPhee says her drawings are “made as a site for figuring out the incommensurate and infinitely parsed movements in vision.” I’ve no doubt that she knows what this means, but it doesn’t give away how she arrives at her delicate, intelligent skeins of line, algebraic figures and shaped textures, nor clarify what appears to be the mapping of a mass of green organic matter onto a tangle of blood-red smoke. Those are the secrets of her practice, amping up the intrigue of her method." - Lane Barden, Artillery Magazine, 2024

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"Visually speaking, McPhee's fields of resonance transcend any evocative association with a geomorphological feature, embodying the reciprocal influence between a tectonic substrate and its atmospheric canopy, to suit a comparison with a seismological event of significant proportions."  Silvia Perea, LUMart, 2024

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 “One gets the sense that the image conjured up is all at once a particular, individual, material composite (colored ink, graphite, paper, the slip of a hand) and a precarious, temporary, expression of forces for which no adequate, human language exists...Thanks to video, the promise and desperation of these sites—their striving— can be ‘condensed,’ ‘extracted,’ and reanimated. This is a distinctively futurist form of eco-sensitivity, a state of affective engagement...” Ina Blom, Mineral Belief (2017)​

 

 "Videos of alternative energy facilities at dawn on the edges of cities—as well as her richly layered photo montages and drawings—inspire consideration of what she describes as “bastard spaces,” places we will reimagine in order to survive the coming carbon storm, when atmospheric carbon concentration exceeds limits beyond our control." (Melissa Potter, BOMB, 2009) 

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 “Christina McPhee makes collapsing and regenerating landscapes that blend technological precision with notions about place-making and interspecies community.” (Beth Venn, KinoSaito Art Center, 2022)  

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Christina McPhee: Regeneration (PDF) 2023

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