Christina McPhee’s images move within a matrix of abstraction, shadowing figures and contingent effects. Her work emulates potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, and in real and imagined ecologies. Her dynamic, performative, physical engagement with drawing, in both her analogue and digital works, is a seduction into surface-skidding calligraphic gestures and mark-making. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the dazzle ships of camouflage in war. Her work takes on violence, tragi-comic exuberance, and vitality from within a ‘post-natural’ experience of community.
Christina McPhee’s work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Rhizome Artbase-New Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and Storefront for Art and Architecture, Thresholds New Media Collection, Scotland, and elsewhere. Born in LA, she lives and works in central coast California.
