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CHRISTINA MCPHEE
Christina McPhee draws on cosmos and crisis in landscape. Multiplicity, doubling, shattering, erasure, shadowing, and pentimenti characterize the visual effects of this research. Eclectic icons of literature, spirituality, comic zines, as well as scientific visualization populate through printed text fragments and drawn collage in her works on paper and paintings on canvas. Her refined line tends toward thresholds in motion. Ethical climates around resistance, resilience and faith develop across drawing, painting, and moving image.
Since 2005, Christina McPhee has presented solo exhibitions at KinoSaito Art Center, Verplanck (Hudson Valley, New York); Left Field Gallery, Los Osos; Irenic Projects, Pasadena; Cerritos College Gallery, Norwalk (Los Angeles County); Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; American University Museum / Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC; Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden; Sara Tecchia, New York; among others. Recent group exhibitions include Atmospheres of Sound in Times of Climate Disruption with Art/Science Lab, University of California-Los Angeles and Echoes of Voynich at Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, both in collaboration with the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide; Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman; Otherwise/Revival at Bridge Projects, Los Angeles; El Mapa at Museo de Arte Moderno (MAMM), Medellín; and Documenta 12 Magazine Project with Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany, among others.
McPhee is the recipient of awards and grants including for Carbon Song Cycle (Pamela Z/Christina McPhee) from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cinematic Arts Program, at the Exploratorium, San Francisco (2023); Ucross Foundation Fellowship (2019); and the MAP Fund for Carbon Song Cycle (2012); among others. Critical essays and reviews appear in print and online, including Artillery, LUMart, Artspace Magazine (Phaedon Press online), BOMB, Leonardo, Digicult, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Weekly, and the Los Angeles Times.
Her work is held in the public collections of the International Center of Photography, New York; Whitney Museum of Art, New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Thresholds Artspace, Perth, Scotland; Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman; Great Plains Art Collection and Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; and Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont; among others. Essay collections on her practice notably include Christina McPhee: A Commonplace Book (Punctum, 2017).
Born in Los Angeles County, she grew up in rural Nebraska. Since 2000 she lives and works in central coast California, on traditional lands of the Chumash and Salinan people.
www.christina-mcphee.com
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