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CHRISTINA MCPHEE: A COMMONPLACE BOOK 2017

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Christina McPhee’s work investigates ways of knowing through methods of pattern ‘discognition’ in common across drawing, painting and multiples. Museum collections include the Whitney Museum of American Art and the International Center for Photography, New York; the American University Museum; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Great Plains and Sheldon Art Museums at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University. Recent solo or two-person gallery shows of her paintings and drawings (2020-24) include Left Field Gallery, Patricia Sweetow, and Irenic Projects in California; and KinoSaito Art Center in the Hudson Valley, Verplanck, New York. Recent group exhibitions include Otherwise/Revival at Bridge Projects Los Angeles (2021) and Here in a Homemade Forest: Common Reading Connections, at WSU Schnitzer Museum. Forthcoming in September 2024 she will participate with drawing and painting in a group exhibition, Voynich Meditations: A Medieval Manuscript and Contemporary Art, at Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles. Recent artist residency fellowships include Ucross (2019), and Jentel (2024), both in Wyoming.

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Christina McPhee Christina McPhee was born in LA County, grew up on the Great Plains, and studied painting at Kansas City Art Institute (BFA), and Boston University (MFA painting, as a student of Philip Guston). She lives and works on the central coast as a guest on the traditional lands of Chumash and Salinan communities. She is left-handed.

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