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About Christine So

Christine So is an American printmaker, photographer and painter living in the hills across the bay from San Francisco. She works in acrylics and cyanotype, the blue and white antique photographic process. Though best known for her cyanotype photographs of forests shrouded in fog, she produces radically different effects with the same medium. Of note are her paintings on paper using the light-sensitive cyanotype solution within which she then prints a pattern. The multiple-day process depends on being able to see while painting in a dark room so as to not expose the li...Read More

Christine So

Established in 20181stDibs seller since 2024

Featured Pieces

Sunrise Japanese Maple II ( 36 x 36 inch Oil painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a painting of the Japanese maple in my front yard. The red of the branches is a thin, sheer under layer and the creamy robin’s egg blue sky light-filled sky was painted on to...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite

Sunrise Japanese Maple II ( 36 x 36 inch Oil painting)

Christine So
Sunrise Japanese Maple II ( 36 x 36 inch Oil painting), 2025

Sunrise Japanese Maple (Framed 20 x 20 inch Oil painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a painting of the Japanese maple in my front yard. The red of the branches is a thin, sheer under layer and the creamy robin’s egg blue sky light-filled sky was painted on t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite

Sunrise Japanese Maple (Framed 20 x 20 inch Oil painting)

Christine So
Sunrise Japanese Maple (Framed 20 x 20 inch Oil painting), 2025

Twilight Redbud (Acrylic painting: 48 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
Original acrylic painting on 24 x 48 inch canvas with 1/5 in inch deep clean white sides. Unframed. This is the fourth in the artist's ‘Twilight’ series of nine monochrome botanical...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

Twilight Redbud (Acrylic painting: 48 x 24 inches)

Christine So
Twilight Redbud (Acrylic painting: 48 x 24 inches), 2021

Two Tall Pines, edition 2 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Two Tall Pines, edition 2 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches)

Christine So
Two Tall Pines, edition 2 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches), 2024

The Clearing (16 x 12 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

The Clearing (16 x 12 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Christine So
The Clearing (16 x 12 inch hand-printed cyanotype), 2024

Gray Iris III (cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This gray and white Japanese-inspired monotype was made using freshly-cut long-stemmed wild iris (iris douglasiana) that grow along the California coast. Their impossibly long stems ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Gray Iris III (cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)

Christine So
Gray Iris III (cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches), 2023

Gray Iris IV (cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This gray and white Japanese-inspired monotype was made using freshly-cut long-stemmed wild iris (iris douglasiana) that grow along the California coast. Their impossibly long stems ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Gray Iris IV (cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)

Christine So
Gray Iris IV (cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches), 2023

Gray Iris V (cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This gray and white Japanese-inspired monotype was made using freshly-cut long-stemmed wild iris (iris douglasiana) that grow along the California coast. Their impossibly long stems ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Gray Iris V (cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)

Christine So
Gray Iris V (cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches), 2023

Sunlight on the Meadow (8.5 x 11 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
A single oak tree in a meadow with the grass aglow in early morning. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. This is a photograph printe...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Sunlight on the Meadow (8.5 x 11 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Christine So
Sunlight on the Meadow (8.5 x 11 inch hand-printed cyanotype), 2024

Delft Agapanthus VIII (24 x 18 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
Both painting and photograph, a painted print. This is a multistep combination of painting and a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s: cyanotype. The outline of th...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Delft Agapanthus VIII (24 x 18 inch cyanotype painting)

Christine So
Delft Agapanthus VIII (24 x 18 inch cyanotype painting), 2025

Into the Woods (Single 36 x 36 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This striped collage in all shades of indigo calls to mind Indonesian or Guatemalan woven textiles. The pattern mounted on wood panel was made by hand-printing, then then slicing int...
Category

2010s Minimalist Mixed Media

Materials

Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram

Into the Woods (Single 36 x 36 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)

Christine So
Into the Woods (Single 36 x 36 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel), 2020

Midnight Magnolia Triptych (Three 24 x 18 inch cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are three separate 24 x 18-inch hand-printed photographs using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. Unframed, side by side, they span 24 x 54 inches”. Once matted and framed ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Midnight Magnolia Triptych (Three 24 x 18 inch cyanotypes)

Christine So
Midnight Magnolia Triptych (Three 24 x 18 inch cyanotypes), 2025

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