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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 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 (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 (20 x 20 inch Oil painting)

Christine So
Sunrise Japanese Maple (20 x 20 inch Oil 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

Moonlight Magnolia (30 x 22.5 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a hand-printed photograph using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. This is a negative (reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original photograph of a branch of a magn...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Moonlight Magnolia (30 x 22.5 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Christine So
Moonlight Magnolia (30 x 22.5 inch hand-printed cyanotype), 2024

Japanese Maple ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This encaustic collage is mounted on a birch wood panel with 3/4 deep natural wood sides. The thick transparent slightly frosty encaustic beeswax coating on the front gives it a cool...
Category

2010s Minimalist Mixed Media

Materials

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

Japanese Maple ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)

Christine So
Japanese Maple ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel), 2020

Light through Leaves 1 ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This encaustic collage is mounted on a birch wood panel with 3/4 deep natural wood sides. The thick transparent slightly frosty encaustic beeswax coating on the front gives it a cool...
Category

2010s Minimalist Mixed Media

Materials

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

Light through Leaves 1 ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)

Christine So
Light through Leaves 1 ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel), 2020

Light through Leaves 2 ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This encaustic collage is mounted on a birch wood panel with 3/4 deep natural wood sides. The thick transparent slightly frosty encaustic beeswax coating on the front gives it a cool...
Category

2010s Minimalist Mixed Media

Materials

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

Light through Leaves 2 ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)

Christine So
Light through Leaves 2 ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel), 2020

Blue on Blue (Single 36 x 36 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This collage on wooden panel was made by cutting up and reassembling hand-printed botanical cyanotypes (blueprints or sunprints) of leaves from my own garden. While cyanotypes are tr...
Category

2010s Minimalist Mixed Media

Materials

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

Blue on Blue (Single 36 x 36 inch monotype collage mounted on wood panel)

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

Mountain Ridge Diptych (Two 12 x 6 inch cyanotypes mounted on panels)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two miniature 12 x 6 inch hand-printed abstract cyanotypes mounted on wood. They are sealed with a satin finish varnish on the face and all sides.The sides are natural wood...
Category

2010s Minimalist Mixed Media

Materials

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

Mountain Ridge Diptych (Two 12 x 6 inch cyanotypes mounted on panels)

Christine So
Mountain Ridge Diptych (Two 12 x 6 inch cyanotypes mounted on panels), 2022

Zen Grass (14" diameter cyanotype mounted on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an original cyanotype permanently sealed and mounted on a round wooden panel. It requires no framing. This monoprint was made using tall grass from my own garden during the ...
Category

2010s Minimalist Mixed Media

Materials

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

Zen Grass (14" diameter cyanotype mounted on wood panel)

Christine So
Zen Grass (14" diameter cyanotype mounted on wood panel), 2020

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

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