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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

Silver Ivy Diptych (Two 35 x 18 inch monotypes)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
Two unframed 35 x 18 inch unique gray cyanotypes. Their combined total is 35 x 36 inches. Once matted and framed they would cover 4.5 feet horizontally. Although this looks like a...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Silver Ivy Diptych (Two 35 x 18 inch monotypes)

Christine So
Silver Ivy Diptych (Two 35 x 18 inch monotypes), 2026

Blue Olive (original cyanotype, 30 x 16 inches)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
The tall narrow format of this unique cyanotype evokes scroll paintings. The olive branches are not white, but pale blue. Traditional single-exposure cyanotype prints are a solid dar...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Monotype, Photogram

Blue Olive (original cyanotype, 30 x 16 inches)

Christine So
Blue Olive (original cyanotype, 30 x 16 inches), 2026

Silver Iris Diptych (Two 18 x 12" botanical monotypes)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
These unique prints were made using fresh-cut Douglas irises which are native to California. The color is a muted grayish blue-green. Depending on the color of wall it is against, it...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Silver Iris Diptych (Two 18 x 12" botanical monotypes)

Christine So
Silver Iris Diptych (Two 18 x 12" botanical monotypes), 2026

Silver Iris I (18 x 12 inch original gray cyanotype)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
The color is a muted gray-green like the celadon glaze on Japanese pottery. it is not a bright mint green. Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. Thi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Silver Iris I (18 x 12 inch original gray cyanotype)

Christine So
Silver Iris I (18 x 12 inch original gray cyanotype), 2026

Silver Iris II (18 x 12 inch original gray cyanotype)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
The color is a muted gray-green like the celadon glaze on Japanese pottery. it is not a bright mint green. Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. Thi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Silver Iris II (18 x 12 inch original gray cyanotype)

Christine So
Silver Iris II (18 x 12 inch original gray cyanotype), 2026

Green Bamboo II (18 x 12 inch original green cyanotype)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
The color is a muted gray-green like the celadon glaze on Japanese pottery. it is not a bright mint green. Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. Thi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Green Bamboo II (18 x 12 inch original green cyanotype)

Christine So
Green Bamboo II (18 x 12 inch original green cyanotype), 2026

Silver Ivy (34 x 18 inch cyanotype) - Contemporary Art
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
Although this looks like a screen print or woodcut, it is actually a form of 19th-century photography, a cyanotype. This pale blue-gray is a very difficult color to achieve with the ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Silver Ivy (34 x 18 inch cyanotype) - Contemporary Art

Christine So
Silver Ivy (34 x 18 inch cyanotype) - Contemporary Art, 2026

Madrone Sunrise Acrylic Painting, Contemporary Landscape, 60 x 36 Inches
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
The butter yellow glow of a summer sky at sunrise. The silhouette of one long graceful madrone branch hanging low. The darker olive green undercoat was painted thinly and allowed to ...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Graphite, Canvas

Madrone Sunrise Acrylic Painting, Contemporary Landscape, 60 x 36 Inches

Christine So
Madrone Sunrise Acrylic Painting, Contemporary Landscape, 60 x 36 Inches, 2026

Celadon Agapanthus ( 21 .5 x 17 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
The color is a muted gray-green like the celadon glaze on Japanese pottery. it is not a bright mint green. Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. Thi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Celadon Agapanthus ( 21 .5 x 17 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Christine So
Celadon Agapanthus ( 21 .5 x 17 inch hand-printed cyanotype), 2026

Eternity Abstract Cyanotype, 24x18 Inch, Signed Monotype
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyanotype, photogram or sun print. ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Eternity Abstract Cyanotype, 24x18 Inch, Signed Monotype

Christine So
Eternity Abstract Cyanotype, 24x18 Inch, Signed Monotype, 2022

Two Tall Pines, (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 21 inches, 1 of 3 ed.)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
Two slender curved Monterey pine trees are backlit by the morning sun. The distant treetops fade into the coastal morning fog ever present in the woods across the bay from San Franci...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Two Tall Pines, (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 21 inches, 1 of 3 ed.)

Christine So
Two Tall Pines, (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 21 inches, 1 of 3 ed.), 2024

Morning Mist, 35 x 23 cyanotype, Contemporary Landscape, Ed. 2 of 3
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. The paths are crowded with towering eucalyptus, bay laurel and madrone tr...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Morning Mist, 35 x 23 cyanotype, Contemporary Landscape, Ed. 2 of 3

Christine So
Morning Mist, 35 x 23 cyanotype, Contemporary Landscape, Ed. 2 of 3, 2025

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