Christina Sorace Mackinnon

    • Before It Runs Out
    • Acrylic, Spray Paint, Charcoal, Paint Pens on Canvas
    • 48 x 48 inches
    SOLD
    • Broken Pencil Points
    • Acrylic and Broken Pencil Points on Canvas
    • 24 x 20 inches
    SOLD
    • Coloring Books and Connecting Dots
    • Acrylic on Canvas
    • 48 x 48 inches
    • $4500
    • Escapade Trails
    • Acrylic on Canvas
    • 84 x 96 inches
    • $18000
    • Ferrari Brain with Bad Brakes
    • Acrylic on Canvas
    • 48 x 48 inches
    • $4500
    • Fragrant Armor
    • Acrylic on Canvas
    • 48 x 48 inches
    • $4500
    • I Don't Know What You Tell Yourself
    • Acrylic, Spray Paint, Ink, Paint Pens on Canvas
    • 48 x 48 inches
    • $5250
    • Keyhole In A Mountain
    • Acrylic, Spray Paint, Ink, Paint Pens on Canvas
    • 24 x 20 inches
    • $1200
    • Let Burn All That is No Longer
    • Acrylic, Spray Paint, Ink, Paint Pens on Canvas
    • 60 x 48 inches
    SOLD
    • Oblige Me With a Drumroll Please
    • Acrylic, Spray Paint, Oil Pastel, Paint Pens on Canvas
    • 24 x 48 inches
    • $2750
    • Page Turner
    • Acrylic, Spray Paint, Ink, Oil Pastels and Paint Pens on Canvas
    • 66 x 58 inches
    SOLD
    • Standardized Robot Tests
    • Acrylic, Spray Paint, Ink, Paint Pens on Canvas
    • 60 x 48 inches
    • $5250
    • There, Elsewhere and Everywhere
    • Acrylic, Spray Paint and Ink on Canvas
    • 48 x 48 inches
    • $4500
    • Underlined Words
    • Acrylic, Spray Paint, Ink and Paint Pens on Canvas
    • 24 x 20 inches
    • $1200

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