"Collapsing and regenerating landscapes...blend technological precision with notions about place-making and interspecies community...the drawn line is always central, forming a connective tissue within and between works that join elements into cosmologies and vast interrelated systems." 

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"Christina McPhee makes collapsing and regenerating landscapes that blend technological precision with notions about place-making and interspecies community. A native of California, she traces her practice of drawing in nature to her childhood in the rural West, where resource exploitation manifests in earthquakes, wildfires, oil spills, and species loss. This exhibition draws upon McPhee’s decades-long exploration of remote places, personal histories, and sojourns both spiritual and ecological.

 

McPhee’s abstract compositions are built up within a matrix of fractured surfaces, vibrant colors, and a web-like layering of transparent effects. Residual smudges of pencil and paint imprint the artist’s presence long after she has stepped away from paper, canvas or screen. Although she works across a range of media, the drawn line is always central, forming a connective tissue within and between works that join elements into cosmologies and vast interrelated systems" --Kino Saito Art Center / curatorial statement

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Invited by Mikiko Ino for the inaugural shows at Kino Saito Art Center in the Hudson Valley, New York.

 Christina McPhee in conversation with curator Beth Venn 13 March 2022 (PDF)