CHRISTINA, AN ABSTRACT ARTIST

Christina "creates works of art from the hues, textures, and forms of paper and from the landscapes that enter her imagination." She has also been inspired by a recent trip to the Red Rock Canyon ouside of Las Vegas, and has created a series of collages based on the vivid colors and textures of this magnificent and primitive landscape.

Much of the paper is purchased from Kate's Paper in the Soho section of Manhattan. Christina also uses other sources such as rice paper that she "dyes" with watercolor paints and inks. She has also mastered making paper from the Mulberry plant and recycling paper from magazines and other mail into collage paper.

While in college majoring in accounting, Christina took several art appreciation classes and started buying prints, mainly DeKooning and Kandinsky, regarded as fathers of abstract art. Christina has studied collage and monoprints with Lester Sprague and woodcuts with Rosamaria Eisler.

She has won many awards for her collages, monprints and woodcuts, most recently second place in the Wet Paints Juried Show for her collage "Red Rock Canyon". Her work can be seen year round at the Phoenix Fine Arts Gallery in Bellport. Her paintings are in several collections on Long Island and in New York City. In 2006 she won first place in her category in a Juried Show judged by Malcolm Morley, a world reknown artist. In 2007, another piece came in second in her category.

Christina belongs to the following Art Associations on Long Island

Wet Paints Studio Group of Sayville

South Bay Art Assoication of Bellport

Art League of Long Island, Huntington

East End Arts Council, Riverhead

Smithtown Township Art Council