Christina Sorace Mackinnon
Artist Statement
I paint abstract works that probe the dynamics of line, color, mark-making, and fluctuation of process as a derivative of how I navigate my footing as a woman and a mother in our ever-changing universe.
Reflective and present, I surrender to the dialogue of process as I begin to develop a surface and make decisions. In many of my paintings, I create fields of multi-layered congestion, which are heavily saturated, integrated sections of the canvas filled with marks, lines, directional patterns, and bold, saturated color combinations. As I paint, I make connections between discord and harmony. I use this method and the interplay of acrylic, spray paint, paint pens, and other mediums as a metaphor for the paradoxical ways life unfolds.
I find that exploring different approaches to painting widens the space for new dialogues to emerge, emulating real-life examples of what I am open to and what I refuse to see. For this reason, I work in series and consider these groupings of paintings to be unique visual abstract stories of the human experience through diverse lenses and perspectives. By informing the work with frayed notions and complexities of anxiety, misperceptions, stigmas, and patriarchal narratives, I navigate my way through the messiness, the struggle, until I reach a sense of peace and resolve within myself and the work.
Selected Exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Unpacking the Narrative”, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2021 Solo Exhibition, “Daze at Home”, MGalleriespna , Washingotn, NJ
2020 “Era of Change”, Online Group Exhibition, Visionary Projects, New York, NY
2020 Makers Alley, 1st Annual Artisan & Craft Juried Exhibition, Frenchtown, NJ
2020 “The Conversation Continues”, The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton NJ
2020 Members Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2020 “Falling Upward”, Solo Exhibition, MK Apothecary, Collingswood, NJ
2020 “35×35 Art Project, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Greece
2019 Members Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2019 “A Collection of Lines”, Brick and Mortar Gallery, Easton, PA
2019 “Conversations”, Art Times Two – the gallery at Princeton Brain & Spine, Princeton, NJ
2019 “THAT”, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2018 Solo Exhibition, Whittemore CCC, (curated by Todd Lambrix), Oldwick, NJ
2018 “Does It Match the Couch?”, Monmouth Museum, Monmouth, NJ
2018 “E-Z 2 Steal”, Prallsville Mill, Stockton, NJ
2017 “Continuations”, Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg, NJ
2016 MAD Gallery, Soho, NYC
2014 “Naked In New Hope”, Sidetracks Gallery, New Hope, PA
2014 The Studio, New Hope, PA
PUBLICATIONS
2020 USA 35×35 Art Project, Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Greece
2020 Trenton Times
2020 AllSheMakes – Online Interview
2020 Create Magazine – Women’s Issue
2019 ImagiNews, August Issue
2017 Artists of Social Media by Thirty5Eleven, First Edition
2017 NJ Arts Maven
2015 Artsy Shark
AWARDS
“Jurors’ Choice” – Makers Alley
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
USA
Canada
Greece
