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artist statement
As humans, we have a inherent desire to create meaning in our lives. We mean to decorate the things that we touch with our fingerprints, as much as we consciously leave our footprints along the paths we choose to take.
As an artist, I am continually captivated by impressions, connections, and beauty in imperfection. The majority of my work addresses the idea that every living person has an innate capability to feel. Some choose to dismiss it. Others accentuate it, understand it, rely on it, admit it, or express it. I aim to propose feeling by creating a dialogue between absence, presence, and personal history.
Existence is beautiful, and it is delicate. The gentle, intangible silence that exists beneath the stresses, pressures, and negativity of the world is what I aim to portray in my work. A pause. I try to get inside that pause and use it to express a type of beauty that no one remembers ever noticing before.
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resume
- Education
BFA with Art History minor, Summa Cum Laude, 3.9 GPA 2009
Valedictorian, New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University
Solo ExhibitionsPatience, Persistence, and Process, Voltage, Cambridge, MA 2011
Weightless, NESAD White Box, Boston, MA 2007
Group Exhibitions
Members Show, Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA 2011
Members Small Works Show, Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA 2010
Experience(d), Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA 2010
B/Vision May, Lincoln Loft, Boston, MA 2010
B/Vision April, Lincoln Loft, Boston, MA 2010
B/Vision January, Lincoln Loft, Boston, MA 2010
Members Small Works Show, Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA 2009
Inaugural Member’s Show, Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA 2009
Christina Watka & Sam Spano, NESAD White Box, Boston, MA 2008
19th Annual Student Show, Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA 2008
18th Annual Student Show, Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA 2007
Prints, White Box Gallery, Boston, MA 2006
Processes , NESAD Studio Gallery, Boston, MA 2006
Boundaries, NESAD Studio Gallery, Boston, MA 2006
Foundation Show, NESAD Main Gallery, Boston, MA 2006
Summer in Florence, Arlington Street Gallery, Boston, MA 2005
Public Installations
Undulating Thumbs, Twelve Chairs Shop|Studio , Fort Point Artist Community of Boston, MA February 2011 – Current
Lace Chandelier, Twelve Chairs Shop|Studio, Fort Point Artist Community of Boston, MA April 2011 – Current
Wallpaper, Twelve Chairs stairway, Fort Point Artist Community of Boston, MA December 2010 – Current
Love Sphere, Suffolk University Sawyer Library, Boston, MA 2008 – Current
Untitled, an interpretation of Lorca’s Blood Wedding, Suffolk University Donahue Building, Boston, MA 2009
Private CollectionsLori and Bill Fontaine
Liz Welch
The Galaforo Family
Juliette Reid
Suzanne John
Anne Marie Rodriguez
Rachel and Scott Braidman
Awards and Honors
Suffolk University Dean Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2005 – 2009
Honorable Mention Award, 19th Annual Student Show, Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA 2008
JSW Cox Scholarship, 2007
Johnson Paints Student Creativity Award, 2007
18th Annual Student Show, Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA, 2007
Professional Memberships
Copley Society of Art
Galatea Gallery
Publications
New England College of Art and Design Continuing Education Catalogue Fall 2009
NESAD advertisements on the MBTA, Summer, Fall, and Winter 2009
Suffolk University Alumni Magazine 2008/2009
NESADSU Alumni Magazine Spring 2007
Channeling Passion into Fine Art, Eriksson, Don, Pepperell Free Press January, 2007
NMRHS Grad Channels Passion into Art, Eriksson, Don, Townsend Times January, 2007
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about me
- I am Christina Watka. I have been installing my artwork, collecting stories, singing, photographing, loving, writing, and observing for some time now. If it is one person or an entire audience of people at once, I consider all of these ways to connect and affect people. It all comes down to the fact that I love to create.
Life gives us so many different languages to learn, but I am determined to speak emotion fluently. I am fortunate to have the opportunity and encouragement to express myself in all of these separate art forms! Still, I can’t say how terrifying an idea it is to me to be able to convey some intangible thing through a color or a melody. It’s devastating. But if I know one thing surely, it is this: as long as people continue to give me their hearts, I will let them into mine, whether it be through the sound of my voice, the way of my words, or the touch of my hand.
I know that I am here to continue something, and so far all of these things feel right.
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Posts
These textile pieces are by Jessica Bell. I am so into them! They feel like stitched paintings. Beautiful.
via arthound
A few more tiny circular compositions from a much larger painting I am working on.
photos copyright to olivegoldwine
This is amazing. I love Maurice Sendak’s work, and his interview with Terry Gross for FreshAir was just about the most beautiful thing I have ever heard. This, though. This is funny. Really funny.
Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak.
This is the greatest interview in the history of “The Colbert Report.” (Go to our actual tumblog if you have trouble watching on the dashboard.)
Recent shots of a painting I am working on. I love these little circular compositions.
photos copyright to olivegoldwine
Cristiana Couceiro’s work is so fun to enjoy. She achieves this timeless feel through effortless simplicity in her compositions, even though they are layered so delicately. I love looking at them. She has been collaging and playing with images since she was little (so she says). Well girl, it really paid off.
Clearly, she has some GIANT clients (see: Nike, NYTimes, Audi, etc.).
You can check out more of her recent work on her blog as well as her website.
photos via cristianacouceiro
Soo Sunny Park again! This piece is showing at the DeCordova until July. Everyone should go out and see it. I am going next week. Apparently, it was a collaborative piece between Sunny and composer Spencer Topel. It is called “Capturing Resonance,” and I will be damned if I ever heard a more beautiful title than that. That’s what we’re all trying to do…capture resonance. It seems that, as a pair, Soo Sunny Park and Spencer Topel really did it.
images via soosunnypark
I am surprised I never heard about HENSE until today. He is an Atlanta-based street artist who is making this amazing work that is extremely unlike a lot of the popular street artists today. His work is outwardly colorful, design-based, and grounded in graffiti-like line work. He used to do more graffiti-styled street art, writing more than drawing, but his recent stuff is much more based in art. I dig it.
images via hence
Soo Sunny Park is an installation goddess. I am so so so so blown away by her work. She uses recycled materials to make THIS.
images via soosunnypark
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creative friends
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press
- Daily Candy
Boston Home Magazine Fall 2011 Issue
RueLaLa
Glovebox
Kati Mennett Photography
Abstraks Magazine September 2011
Voltage
Flux Boston
Twelve Chairs Boston here and here
The Edge
Suffolk University here and here
Rezaul Haque
