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Christina McPhee is an artist living and working on traditional Chumash and Salinan territory, in central coast California. Her landscape-based abstractions embody ways of knowing, and a poetics of space concerned with cosmology and crisis. Scientific visualizations and sonifications mesh with field notes and drawings, across layered time-based and still media. Often in collaboration with sound artists, composers, and field scientists, she illuminates environmental histories, climate futures, spirituality, and community.

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 "Pattern discognition," as curator James MacDevitt remarks, is a hallmark of her process: open questions around ways of knowing are at the core of her practice. Museum collection highlights include the Whitney Museum of American Art and the International Center of Photography, New York. Recent institutional shows of her work include Christina McPhee: Regeneration at KinoSaito Art Center, NY (2022). Group exhibitions include UCLA Art/Sci Lab's Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption and Echoes of Voynich: Coded Systems in Contemporary Art at Wonzimer Gallery, as part of PST ART : Art & Science Collide, southern California 2024. 

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ARTIST STATEMENT

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 All roads lead through the drawn line, which seems to regenerate continuously in my practice across media and decades. Drawing is a portal  through which my practice passes its material effects and carries the baggage of stories. Narrative poetics come through with scraps, debris, the parti elements, which stand in for the whole. Thematically, I’m obsessed with apparitions, revenants, traces of story and history, dramas of erasure, and regeneration.

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www.christina-mcphee.com

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CV November 2024 PDF

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