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Christine So Art

American, b. 1970
Christine So is an American printmaker, photographer and painter living in the hills across the bay from her hometown, San Francisco. She is best known for her blue and white cyanotype photographs of forests shrouded in fog. The Foggy Woods series is ever-growing as the artist continually hikes these hills which are often foggy at dawn. She explores radically different ways to use this antique photographic medium with and without out a camera. At times her blue prints look like screen prints. At others like abstract watercolors. Besides printing photographs from negatives, botanicals using entire branches, altering the chemical recipe to obtain novel colors, and creating abstract cyanotypes of deliberate patterns, she also paints images using the light-sensitive solution and prints a pattern within them. These last works she calls “cyanotype paintings”. The multiple-day process depends on being able to see while painting in a dark room so as to not expose the light-sensitive painted silhouette before it’s time. She named her series of botanical paintings which have a fine blue and white pattern “Delft Garden” after the Dutch painted porcelain. Clients include: Timothée Chalamet, Starbucks, Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville), Jumaira Resort, Lux Habitat Sotheby’s International (Dubai), Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, Kimpton Hotel Monaco (Salt Lake City) , Mazars Accounting, Limelight Hotel Mammoth (California), MD Anderson Hospital (Houston), Oncology Center, Houston Methodist Hospital.
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Artist: Christine So
Caminante No Hay Camino (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 8.5" matted to 14 x 11")
Caminante No Hay Camino (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 8.5" matted to 14 x 11")

Caminante No Hay Camino (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 8.5" matted to 14 x 11")

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

A framed edition of this cyanotype sold to Timothée Chalamet at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles. One of 10 mini editions of the same photograph printed by hand using the antique ...

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2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Falling Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 10 inches)
Falling Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 10 inches)

Falling Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 10 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process and very big negatives which are the same size as the final print. These are the iconic Monterey Pines ...

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2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Bending Pine: Hand-Printed Cyanotype Photograph, 11x18 inches, Edition 3 of 5
Bending Pine: Hand-Printed Cyanotype Photograph, 11x18 inches, Edition 3 of 5

Bending Pine: Hand-Printed Cyanotype Photograph, 11x18 inches, Edition 3 of 5

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

The tree is a native Californian Monterey pine. They are found up and the down the coast of California from Carmel to San Francisco and all the way up north Mendocino. The moody scen...

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2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Celadon Agapanthus (16 x 12 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Celadon Agapanthus (16 x 12 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Delft Madrone II (Framed 44 x 30 inch cyanotype painting)
Delft Madrone II (Framed 44 x 30 inch cyanotype painting)

Delft Madrone II (Framed 44 x 30 inch cyanotype painting)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Framed to 44 x 30 x 2 inches. The artwork itself measures 40 x 26 inches. Arches 100% cotton watercolor paper framed in a white 2-inch deep solid wood box frame. The intricate patt...

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2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Slender Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 12 inches, ed. 2/10)
Slender Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 12 inches, ed. 2/10)

Slender Pines (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 12 inches, ed. 2/10)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Brand-new addition to the Foggy Woods Collection of forests in northern California near San Francisco. New as of May 14, 2024. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the ant...

Category

2010s Realist Christine So Art

Materials

Photogram, Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper

Misty Slope, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 17 inches)
Misty Slope, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 17 inches)

Misty Slope, edition 1 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 11 x 17 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Slender Pines (35 x 23"  hand-printed cyanotype, ed. 1 of 3 editions)
Slender Pines (35 x 23"  hand-printed cyanotype, ed. 1 of 3 editions)

Slender Pines (35 x 23" hand-printed cyanotype, ed. 1 of 3 editions)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Early morning in the silent woods. These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the wo...

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2010s Realist Christine So Art

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

The Journey's End II (Hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 21 inches, ed 1 of 3)
The Journey's End II (Hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 21 inches, ed 1 of 3)

The Journey's End II (Hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 21 inches, ed 1 of 3)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process and very big negatives which are the same size as the final print. They are of the woods in the hills of...

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2010s Realist Christine So Art

Materials

Photogram

Sunrise Bay Laurel (Framed 13 x 13 inch acrylic painting on wood panel)
Sunrise Bay Laurel (Framed 13 x 13 inch acrylic painting on wood panel)

Sunrise Bay Laurel (Framed 13 x 13 inch acrylic painting on wood panel)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Painted on birch wood panel and framed in a 1.5 " deep white solid wood floater frame. The same frame is now on the other tree paintings this size by the artist, Afternoon Bay Laurel...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Birch, Paint, Acrylic, Panel, Wood Panel, Graphite

Sunrise Ridge, edition 2 of 5 (Hand-printed cyanotype, 12 x 18 inches)
Sunrise Ridge, edition 2 of 5 (Hand-printed cyanotype, 12 x 18 inches)

Sunrise Ridge, edition 2 of 5 (Hand-printed cyanotype, 12 x 18 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Brand-new addition to the Foggy Woods Collection of forests in northern California near San Francisco. New as of May 2024. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique...

Category

2010s Realist Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Five Agapanthus Flowers (original cyanotype, 24 x 36 inches)
Five Agapanthus Flowers (original cyanotype, 24 x 36 inches)

Five Agapanthus Flowers (original cyanotype, 24 x 36 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Persicaria capitata (pink pinhead) vines hang from a wall, curving, curling, with tiny flowers and berries at their tips. The leaves are a pale aqua against the deep indigo backgrou...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Monotype, Photogram

Evening Garden Wall (original cyanotype, 24 x 36 inches)
Evening Garden Wall (original cyanotype, 24 x 36 inches)

Evening Garden Wall (original cyanotype, 24 x 36 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Persicaria capitata (pink pinhead) vines hang from a wall, curving, curling, with tiny flowers and berries at their tips. The leaves are a pale aqua against the deep indigo backgrou...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Monotype, Photogram

Bending Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 21" , edition 1 of 3)
Bending Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 21" , edition 1 of 3)

Bending Pine (hand-printed cyanotype, 35 x 21" , edition 1 of 3)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This graceful bending tree disappearing into the morning mist is a Monterey pine. They are found all along the coast of California from Carmel to San Francisco and all the way up nor...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Winter Woods, edition 2 of 5 (hand-printed cyanotype, 17.5 x 11 inches)
Winter Woods, edition 2 of 5 (hand-printed cyanotype, 17.5 x 11 inches)

Winter Woods, edition 2 of 5 (hand-printed cyanotype, 17.5 x 11 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

The moody scene of a shady bend in a forest path was captured at dawn on a winter's day. The sky is beginning to brighten. The tall narrow format accentuates the height of the tower...

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2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

The Day Begins, 11 x 17 in., Cyanotype, ed. 1 of 3, Contemporary Landscape
The Day Begins, 11 x 17 in., Cyanotype, ed. 1 of 3, Contemporary Landscape

The Day Begins, 11 x 17 in., Cyanotype, ed. 1 of 3, Contemporary Landscape

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. The paths are crowded with towering eucalyptus, bay laurel and madrone tr...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Fog Ridge (Hand-printed cyanotype, 16 x 24", ed. 2 of 5)
Fog Ridge (Hand-printed cyanotype, 16 x 24", ed. 2 of 5)

Fog Ridge (Hand-printed cyanotype, 16 x 24", ed. 2 of 5)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Brand-new addition to the Foggy Woods Collection of forests in northern California near San Francisco. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process a...

Category

2010s Realist Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Morning Valley Light
Morning Valley Light

Morning Valley Light

By Christine So

Located in Atlanta, GA

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

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2010s Christine So Art

Materials

Monotype

Sunrise Mountains V
Sunrise Mountains V

Sunrise Mountains V

By Christine So

Located in Atlanta, GA

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

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2010s Christine So Art

Materials

Monotype

Rhododendron Bud I
Rhododendron Bud I

Rhododendron Bud I

By Christine So

Located in Atlanta, GA

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

Category

2010s Christine So Art

Materials

Monotype

Rhododendron Bud II
Rhododendron Bud II

Rhododendron Bud II

By Christine So

Located in Atlanta, GA

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

Category

2010s Christine So Art

Materials

Monotype

Spring Japanese Maple
Spring Japanese Maple

Spring Japanese Maple

By Christine So

Located in Atlanta, GA

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

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2010s Christine So Art

Materials

Monotype

Spring Poppies II
Spring Poppies II

Spring Poppies II

By Christine So

Located in Atlanta, GA

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

Category

2010s Christine So Art

Materials

Monotype

Woodland Path
Woodland Path

Woodland Path

By Christine So

Located in Atlanta, GA

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

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2010s Christine So Art

Materials

Monotype

Woodland Path II
Woodland Path II

Woodland Path II

By Christine So

Located in Atlanta, GA

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

Category

2010s Christine So Art

Materials

Monotype

Moonlight

Moonlight

By Christine So

Located in Atlanta, GA

I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway ...

Category

2010s Christine So Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Caminante No Hay Camino (11.5 x 16.5" cyanotype, ed. 1 of 10)
Caminante No Hay Camino (11.5 x 16.5" cyanotype, ed. 1 of 10)

Caminante No Hay Camino (11.5 x 16.5" cyanotype, ed. 1 of 10)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco in northern California. Monterey pines tower over an early morning path as the distance dissolves...

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2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Silver Eucalyptus I ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Silver Eucalyptus I ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Misty Agapanthus IV ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Misty Agapanthus IV ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Misty Agapanthus IV ( 24 x 18 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist altered the ratio...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Two Tall Pines, edition 2 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches)
Two Tall Pines, edition 2 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches)

Two Tall Pines, edition 2 of 10 (hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 11 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Light through Leaves 1 ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)
Light through Leaves 1 ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)

Light through Leaves 1 ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This encaustic collage is mounted on a birch wood panel with 3/4 deep natural wood sides. The thick transparent slightly frosty encaustic beeswax coating on the front gives it a cool...

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2010s Minimalist Christine So Art

Materials

Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Panel, Monotype, Photogram, Encaustic

Japanese Maple ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)
Japanese Maple ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)

Japanese Maple ( 8 x 8 inch encaustic collage on wood panel)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This encaustic collage is mounted on a birch wood panel with 3/4 deep natural wood sides. The thick transparent slightly frosty encaustic beeswax coating on the front gives it a cool...

Category

2010s Minimalist Christine So Art

Materials

Birch, Paper, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel, Monotype, Photogram

Delft Garden Cyanotype Painting on Cotton Paper, Signed, 24x18 Inch
Delft Garden Cyanotype Painting on Cotton Paper, Signed, 24x18 Inch

Delft Garden Cyanotype Painting on Cotton Paper, Signed, 24x18 Inch

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Spring Madrone V Cyanotype Painting, 22 x 30 inches on cotton paper, signed
Spring Madrone V Cyanotype Painting, 22 x 30 inches on cotton paper, signed

Spring Madrone V Cyanotype Painting, 22 x 30 inches on cotton paper, signed

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

In her Delft Garden series, artist Christine So first drew the outline of a plant in pencil and then painted it in a dark room —not paint– but with the cyanotype light-sensitive emu...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Spring Madrone IV Cyanotype Painting, 22 x 30 inches on cotton paper, signed
Spring Madrone IV Cyanotype Painting, 22 x 30 inches on cotton paper, signed

Spring Madrone IV Cyanotype Painting, 22 x 30 inches on cotton paper, signed

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

In her Delft Garden series, artist Christine So first drew the outline of a plant in pencil and then painted it in a dark room —not paint– but with the cyanotype light-sensitive emu...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Misty Slope Cyanotype Photograph, Hand-Printed, 18 x 24", Edition 1 of 5
Misty Slope Cyanotype Photograph, Hand-Printed, 18 x 24", Edition 1 of 5

Misty Slope Cyanotype Photograph, Hand-Printed, 18 x 24", Edition 1 of 5

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This is an original, hand-printed contact photograph using the antique cyanotype process. These Monterey pine trees obscured by fog are in the woods across the bay from San Francisco...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

The Tallest Pine (Hand-printed cyanotype, 27 x 15 inches)
The Tallest Pine (Hand-printed cyanotype, 27 x 15 inches)

The Tallest Pine (Hand-printed cyanotype, 27 x 15 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

This is a larger version of the smaller photograph of the same name. All are hand-printed photographs on watercolor paper using the antique cyanotype process. The view is of a very m...

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2010s Realist Christine So Art

Materials

Photogram

Sunrise Oak Hand-Printed Cyanotype, 8x10 Inch, Contemporary, Signed

Sunrise Oak Hand-Printed Cyanotype, 8x10 Inch, Contemporary, Signed

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

A solitary oak tree is backlit by the glow of sunrise at dawn along a trail. The scene is a hiking trail in the hills of Oakland, California. This is a one-off mini studio proof. A h...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Midday Sun (18 x 24 inch hand-printed toned cyanotype)
Midday Sun (18 x 24 inch hand-printed toned cyanotype)

Midday Sun (18 x 24 inch hand-printed toned cyanotype)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Though this unique monotype looks like a woodcut or linocut, it is not. This is a cyanotype, a kind of lensless photography dating back to the 1800s. This butter yellow cyanotype sta...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Twin Pines (11 x 7.25 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

Twin Pines (11 x 7.25 inch hand-printed cyanotype)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

These iconic Monterey pines can be found all up and down the coast of northern California from San Francisco to Carmel and beyond. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across...

Category

2010s Contemporary Christine So Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram

Forest Sunrise (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)
Forest Sunrise (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)

Forest Sunrise (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Unframed. New from 2023. This is an original, hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints were made. Four have sold. Only six...

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2010s Realist Christine So Art

Materials

Photogram

Morning Valley Light (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)
Morning Valley Light (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)

Morning Valley Light (Hand-printed cyanotype, 18 x 24 inches)

By Christine So

Located in Oakland, CA

Unframed. New from 2023. This is an original, hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints were made. Four have sold. Only six...

Category

2010s Realist Christine So Art

Materials

Photogram

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