By Christina McPhee
Located in New York, NY
SWAN IN LOVE (TEOREMA 50), 2012
ink, watercolor, airbrush paint, graphite on paper
37.5 x 52 inches / 952 x 1320 mm
unframed
Christina McPhee’s expansive abstract paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos test or query how can we know, and who is we? Moving from within a matrix of measurement, observation and contingent effects, her work resists characterization as product, and continually accesses fields outside itself. For her, process equals trial. Her work emulates potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, from a perspective of the non-self– a world beyond identity.
McPhee’s dynamic, performative, physical engagement with materials, 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Archival Ink Animal Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsArchival Ink, Archival Paper