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Christine So

Oakland, CA
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About Christine So

Christine So is an American printmaker, photographer and painter living in the hills across the bay from her hometown, San Francisco. She is best known for her blue and white cyanotype photographs of forests shrouded in fog. The Foggy Woods series is ever-growing as the artist continually hikes these hills which are often foggy at dawn. She explores radically different ways to use this antique photographic medium with and without a camera. At times her blue prints look like screen prints. At others like abstract watercolors. Besides printing photographs from negatives,...Read More

Christine So

Established in 20181stDibs seller since 2024

Featured Pieces

Summer Woods III (40 x 26 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Summer Woods III (40 x 26 inch cyanotype painting)

Christine So
Summer Woods III (40 x 26 inch cyanotype painting), 2024

Summer Woods II
Located in Oakland, CA
This unique multistep technique is a combination of a painting and a photograph or monotype. Cyanotypes are a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s. The chemicals a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Summer Woods II

Christine So
Summer Woods II, 2024

Tumbling Wave 4 (21 x 21" square abstract cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyanotype, photogram or sun print. ...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Tumbling Wave 4 (21 x 21" square abstract cyanotype)

Christine So
Tumbling Wave 4 (21 x 21" square abstract cyanotype), 2023

Highest Mountain Diptych II (Two hand-printed 22 x 22 inch abstract cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though these two separate 22.5 x 22.5 inch monotypes resemble abstract watercolor paintings with their soft gradations and luminous quality, they are actually a form of photography ...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Highest Mountain Diptych II (Two hand-printed 22 x 22 inch abstract cyanotypes)

Christine So
Highest Mountain Diptych II (Two hand-printed 22 x 22 inch abstract cyanotypes), 2023

Sea Cliffs 7 (Hand-printed 40 x 20 inch abstract cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyanotype, photogram or sun print. ...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Sea Cliffs 7 (Hand-printed 40 x 20 inch abstract cyanotype)

Christine So
Sea Cliffs 7 (Hand-printed 40 x 20 inch abstract cyanotype), 2023

Sea Cliffs 6 (Hand-printed 40 x 20 inch abstract cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyanotype, photogram or sun print. ...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Sea Cliffs 6 (Hand-printed 40 x 20 inch abstract cyanotype)

Christine So
Sea Cliffs 6 (Hand-printed 40 x 20 inch abstract cyanotype), 2023

Sunrise Ridge (Hand-printed cyanotype, 12 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Brand-new addition to the Foggy Woods Collection of forests in northern California near San Francisco. New as of May 14, 2024. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the ant...
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Sunrise Ridge (Hand-printed cyanotype, 12 x 18 inches)

Christine So
Sunrise Ridge (Hand-printed cyanotype, 12 x 18 inches), 2023

Slender Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 12 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Brand-new addition to the Foggy Woods Collection of forests in northern California near San Francisco. New as of May 14, 2024. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the ant...
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Rag Paper, Archival Paper, Paper, Photogram

Slender Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 12 inches)

Christine So
Slender Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 12 inches), 2023

Madrone Tree (hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. New from 2024. Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints made. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using t...
Category

2010s Naturalistic Landscape Photography

Materials

Photogram

Madrone Tree (hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)

Christine So
Madrone Tree (hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches), 2024

Foggy Morning Pines (Hand-Printed original cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on watercolor paper. Actor Timothée Chalamet owns one edition of this photo, though his is a mirror image printed from the only time that t...
Category

2010s Naturalistic Landscape Photography

Materials

Rag Paper, Photogram

Foggy Morning Pines (Hand-Printed original cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)

Christine So
Foggy Morning Pines (Hand-Printed original cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches), 2022

Caminante No Hay Camino (Hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on watercolor paper. Actor Timothée Chalamet owns one smaller edition of this photo, having bought it in person at The Other ...
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Photogram

Caminante No Hay Camino (Hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)

Christine So
Caminante No Hay Camino (Hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches), 2022

Forest Sunrise (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. New from 2023. This is an original, hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints were made. Four have sold. Only six...
Category

2010s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Photogram

Forest Sunrise (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)

Christine So
Forest Sunrise (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches), 2023

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