Christina McPhee

Artist Statement

Through drawing as a transdisciplinary practice, Christina McPhee grounds her work in embodied knowledge and the sense of the open work. Across painting and drawing, as well as multiples including prints and animated single and multichannel video, common ground is generated through serrated thresholds, linear pathways and iterative fields of nuanced color. Tension and resonance between spirituality and sense of place, handwriting and drawing, indeterminacy and the finite are dynamic folds in her work. Collage and transcription of literary texts develop a syntax around subversive beauty, strangeness, and joy in the face of struggle. Trauma is affiliated to geological phenomena in a visual bundle she calls 'seismic memory,' or the notion of a feedback loop between telluric processes and human life. Her work is motivated by Fluxus historically, and participates in research on landscape through an anti-colonial understanding and network.