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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
stop motion video directed by Vincent Pianina and Lorenzo Papace.
SO GORGEOUS. The light! The magic! The motion. I love it.
via thisiscolossal
Sometimes, it’s nice to get your mind out of a busy day to fall in love with simple images like these, by Luis Gonzalez Palma. Wouldn’t it be nice to sail through a sea of sheets?
via junkculture
Images of Long Studio, Fogo Islands Studios, Photo: bent renè synnevåg. Design by Saunders Architecture.
This place (an artist studio, can you imagine?!?!!??) is amazing. Out of this world. The ocean looks so vicious!
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This is the perfect video to end today. I love so much about this, even though pixilated, high-tech stuff isn’t normally my thing. The undulation of the form is so complementary to nature, and the sound element is truly what takes the whole piece to the next level—it brings the outside, in. The drawings/shadows created inside the 3,600 LCD tiles suggest the calm growth of nature so beautifully, and the sound just finishes the puzzle. I love it. I love it.
Patterned by Nature is currently installed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
via thisiscolossal
Love these little colorful, embroidered “paintings” by Kate Keara Pelen. Really expressive.
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A little mid-century modern inspiration.
These window panels in artist Doug Atikins home are killing me! I want them!
This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.”
- John CleeseThis is one of the most beautiful, motivating pieces of film I have seen in a while. By Mickey Smith.
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Cai Guo-Qiang marked the opening of his exhibition Sky Ladder with Mystery Circle at MOCA in LA with this amazing display of light, explosion, and sound.
Gorgeous capture by Variable of the Hindu Holi Festival of Colors. It is such an amazing way to express something….tossing powder pigment high into the air.
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More than 100 of Peter Gentenaar’s ethereal paper sculptures were hung inside the Abbey church of Saint-Riquier in France.
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creative friends
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press
- Daily Candy
Boston Home Magazine Fall 2011 (printed version)
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
