2024 Feast Day Paintings | Christina McPhee

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CHRISTINA MCPHEE

Image: "Santa Cristina the Astonishing Resurrects at Her Own Funeral Mass" painting by Christina McPhee

Image: detail, Santa Cristina the Astonishing Resurrects at Her Own Funeral Mass

Image: Saint Mike and All Angels Dance with My Banty Hens on the Basketball Court of Judson Memorial Church (After Day is Done) , painting by Christina McPhee

Image: Detail, Saint Mike and All Angels Dance with My Banty Hens on the Basketball Court of Judson Memorial Church (After Day is Done), painting by Christina McPhee

Image: "Sisters or Daughters of the Order of the Magdalene Conjure An Alchemical Contagion " painting by Christina McPhee

Image: detail, Sisters or Daughters of the Order of the Magdalene Conjure An Alchemical Contagion , painting by Christina McPhee

Image: detail, Something in You But Wilder (Our Lady of Mount Carmel Takes a Walk in North Williamsburg, New York) , painting by Christina McPhee

Image: Detail, :Saint Jerome in Her Study with Rampant Lion and Posey Parker Interview, For Example" painting by Christina McPhee

Image: Stigmata in Search of Saint Francis

Image: detail, Stigmata in Search of Saint Francis, painting by Christina McPhee

Image: Detail, She Said, If I Could Just Touch The Hem of His Garment I Know I'll Be Made Whole (after Sam Cooke), painting by Christina McPhee

Image: "Hymn to Saint Cecilia Gentili by Popular Acclaim at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on the Theme of Dream Girl" painting by Christina McPhee

Image: Detail, Hymn to Saint Cecilia Gentili by Popular Acclaim at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on the Theme of Dream Girl, painting by Christina McPhee

Image: Detail, Lucy in the Sky with Mothra

Image: "Fancy Feast at Morro Rock" painting by Christina McPhee

Image: Detail, Fancy Feast at Morro Rock, painting by Christina McPhee

FEAST DAY

Who gathers by the bonfire? Who’s waiting for an invite? A feast is growing in numbers, and floating above the fire, a milky smudge of vermillion smokes, a drift of saints alive. Feasting is everything we were good at: strategies of survival and surfeit have led, at last, to this. Arriving from above and below, the paintings move from tiny relics to gigantic fields where stigmata, like salamanders, hunt for Saint Francis. Mike Kelley leads in a high school parade at Judson Church. Fifteenth-century Mary Magdalene superheroines convene in a huddle. Dive-bombing Mothra fixates her sights on Saint Lucy, her eyes on a plate. Sam Cooke sings on the hem of a garment ‘and I shall be healed.’ Around Valentine’s Day, a crowd anoints trans activist Gentili: they shout in the cathedral, ‘Saint Cecilia!’ Our Lady of Mount Carmel strolls like a girl on a summer’s night in North Brooklyn, slipping her hand along the tablecloth.

Saint Mike and All Angels is on view in "The 100th Show" at Left Field Gallery through January 26, 2025

Christina McPhee: Feast Day, at Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CaliforniA

March 9 - April 21, 2024

Feast Day show photos: Elliott Johnson

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