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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

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

Winter Light (60 x 36 inch Acrylic painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
The calm shades of a winter sky at sunrise. The silhouette of long graceful liquid ambar tree branches hanging low. The edges of the leaves are not sharp but are softened as if the w...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

Winter Light (60 x 36 inch Acrylic painting)

Christine So
Winter Light (60 x 36 inch Acrylic painting), 2025

Sunrise Japanese Maple (Framed 20 x 20 inch Oil painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an oil painting of the deep red 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...
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

Daybreak Japanese Maple ( 36 x 36 inch Oil painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a ‘dancing peacock Japanese maple’ (Acer Japonicum Aconitifolium) also known as ‘Maiku-jaku' in Japanese. Its massive leaves have nine points instead of 5. They can be as b...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite

Daybreak Japanese Maple ( 36 x 36 inch Oil painting)

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

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

Day and Night Forest Diptych (Two 18 x 24 inch cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two 18 x 24-inch hand-printed photographs of the fog in early morning light in the woods in northern California near San Francisco using the antique cyanotype process. Thei...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Day and Night Forest Diptych (Two 18 x 24 inch cyanotypes)

Christine So
Day and Night Forest Diptych (Two 18 x 24 inch cyanotypes), 2025

Solitary Madrone (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 23", ed. 1 of 3)
Located in Oakland, CA
Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 3 prints made in this largest size. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Solitary Madrone (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 23", ed. 1 of 3)

Christine So
Solitary Madrone (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 23", ed. 1 of 3), 2024

Solitary Madrone (hand-printed cyanotype, 30 x 20", ed. 2 of 5)
Located in Oakland, CA
Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 3 prints made in this largest size. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Solitary Madrone (hand-printed cyanotype, 30 x 20", ed. 2 of 5)

Christine So
Solitary Madrone (hand-printed cyanotype, 30 x 20", ed. 2 of 5), 2024

Caminante No Hay Camino (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 23", ed. 1 of 3)
Located in Oakland, CA
Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 3 prints made in this largest size. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Caminante No Hay Camino (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 23", ed. 1 of 3)

Christine So
Caminante No Hay Camino (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 23", ed. 1 of 3), 2025

Bay Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two separate 40 x 26 inch cyanotypes (unique monotypes) made using the same tree branches flipped over facing the opposite direction, the result being a symmetrical mirror ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Monotype, Photogram, Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper

Bay Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)

Christine So
Bay Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined), 2024

Night Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)
Located in Oakland, CA
Unframed. Two 40h x 26w inch monotypes. Signed on the back by the artist. Images of the prints framed are just to give a sense of how much wall they would cover once framed with a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Monotype, Photogram

Night Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)

Christine So
Night Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined), 2024

Sunrise Magnolia (Framed 13 x 13 inch acrylic painting on wood panel)
Located in Oakland, CA
Painted on birch wood panel and framed in a 1.5 " deep white solid wood floater frame. The same frame is now on the other tree paintings this size by the artist, Afternoon Bay Laurel...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Birch, Paint, Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel, Graphite

Sunrise Magnolia (Framed 13 x 13 inch acrylic painting on wood panel)

Christine So
Sunrise Magnolia (Framed 13 x 13 inch acrylic painting on wood panel)

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