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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

Spring Rhododendron II (18 x 12 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 Still-life Paintings

Materials

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

Spring Rhododendron II (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)

Christine So
Spring Rhododendron II (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting), 2025

Spring Rhododendron I (18 x 12 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 Still-life Paintings

Materials

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

Spring Rhododendron I (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)

Christine So
Spring Rhododendron I (18 x 12 inch cyanotype painting), 2025

Rhododendron Bud II (12 x 12 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 Still-life Paintings

Materials

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

Rhododendron Bud II (12 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)

Christine So
Rhododendron Bud II (12 x 12 inch cyanotype painting), 2025

Rhododendron Bud (12 x 12 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 Still-life Paintings

Materials

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

Rhododendron Bud (12 x 12 inch cyanotype painting)

Christine So
Rhododendron Bud (12 x 12 inch cyanotype painting), 2025

Spring Japanese Maple (18 x 18 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 Still-life Paintings

Materials

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

Spring Japanese Maple (18 x 18 inch cyanotype painting)

Christine So
Spring Japanese Maple (18 x 18 inch cyanotype painting), 2025

Bending Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 29.5 x 18" , edition 1 of 5)
Located in Oakland, CA
New. A nearly 30 inches (29 5/8") hand-printed version of the smaller landscape of the same name. There are just 5 editions of this largest size. All are unframed. The tree is a na...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Bending Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 29.5 x 18" , edition 1 of 5)

Christine So
Bending Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 29.5 x 18" , edition 1 of 5), 2024

Misty Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer. Al...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Misty Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)

Christine So
Misty Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype), 2023

Misty Evening Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the silhouettes of the native Californian Matilija Poppy also known as giant tree poppies and Coulter's Poppy. They grow over 4 feet tall and appear each year in summer. ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Misty Evening Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype)

Christine So
Misty Evening Poppies (20 x 14 inch cyanotype), 2023

Moonlight Magnolia III (24 x 18 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 III (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Christine So
Moonlight Magnolia III (24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype), 2024

Moonlight Magnolia Diptych (Two 8.5 x 11" hand-printed cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two separate 11 x 8.5 inch (45 x 60 cm) original hand-printed original cyanotype photographs sold together. Cyanotypes are an antique photographic process dating back to t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Moonlight Magnolia Diptych (Two 8.5 x 11" hand-printed cyanotypes)

Christine So
Moonlight Magnolia Diptych (Two 8.5 x 11" hand-printed cyanotypes), 2024

Pine Ridge (29.5 x 18 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

Pine Ridge (29.5 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Christine So
Pine Ridge (29.5 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype), 2025

Misty Maple I (24 x 18 inch monotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Misty Maple I (24 x 18 inch monotype)

Christine So
Misty Maple I (24 x 18 inch monotype), 2024

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