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PROJECT: TRICKSTER UTOPIA​ 2020-21

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Regarding Trickster: ​​​​​"SPILYAY’S CHALLENGE IS ADDRESSED TO BOTH NON-INDIAN AND INDIAN TO LEARN ABOUT THE ART OF LIFE AND DEATH.

THE CHALLENGE OF SPILYAY IS ALL AROUND US."  Wall text, Yakama Tribal Museum, Washington 

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A pandemic project by Christina McPhee

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​​"McPhee’s five large paintings continue in, and expand on, her tradition of highly controlled and elegant mark-making. They speak a gestural language rich with references to the natural world and to physical and emotional landscape. Her dense, cinematic and palimpsestic works invite you in through their scrim via nuanced points of entry: a dart of intense orange, a window of Naples yellow. The works assert themselves both as images and as monoliths, jutting out from the wall with hefty edges (which are themselves fully considered, revealing glimpses of the underpainting). Are they space or surface, or both? Entire theses are contained within their edges." -- Madeleine Ignon, LUM Art,  2021

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Some of the ​​​Trickster Utopia paintings were shown with ceramic sculptures by Toshiaki Nora at Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, and at Left Field, Los Osos, California, in 2021. 

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