Christina McPhee

BLUE JAY WAY

2012

Junction Disjunction IV Ink on polypropylene 150 x 450 cm Eleanna Martinou was born in Athens (1981). Studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2006) and graduated with a MA in the...

Purple Haze (Glyph), 2012 ink, watercolor, colored pencil, marker ink and fluid ink on synthetic paper 25 x 38 inches / 635 x 965 mm Christina McPhee’s expansive abstract paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos test or query how can we know, and who is we? Moving from within a matrix of measurement, observation and contingent effects, her work resists characterization as product, and continually accesses fields outside itself. For her, process equals trial. Her work emulates potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, from a perspective of the non-self– a world beyond identity. McPhee’s dynamic, performative, physical engagement with materials, in both her analogue and digital works, is a seduction into surface-skidding calligraphic gestures and mark-making. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the ‘dazzle ships...

Kathy Grayson explores how day-to-day transitions from analog to digital media affect traditional painting. Fascinated by the transformations of meaning that occur when pictorial tec...

Venus 8 (Lung), 2009 ink on synthetic paper 30 x 22 in / 762 x 558 mm unframed drawing Christina McPhee’s expansive abstract paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos test or query how can we know, and who is we? Moving from within a matrix of measurement, observation and contingent effects, her work resists characterization as product, and continually accesses fields outside itself. For her, process equals trial. Her work emulates potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, from a perspective of the non-self– a world beyond identity. McPhee’s dynamic, performative, physical engagement with materials, in both her analogue and digital works, is a seduction into surface-skidding calligraphic gestures and mark-making. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the ‘dazzle...

Acrylic, Gouache & Colored Pencil on (400 gsm) Fine Art Paper + + If I see a feather laying on the ground, I always stop to pick it up and look closely at the design - they are pe...

Acrylic, Gouache & Colored Pencil on (400 gsm) Fine Art Paper + + If I see a feather laying on the ground, I always stop to pick it up and look closely at the design – they are ...

Mirtha Moreno Born in Havana, Cuba, in the late 70s during a well-documented time of religious and political oppression, abstract expressionist artist Mirtha Moreno, immigrated to th...

Acrylic, Gouache & Colored Pencil on (400 gsm) Fine Art Paper + + If I see a feather laying on the ground, I always stop to pick it up and look closely at the design - they are pe...