After 25 years as a project manager in the design and construction industry Christine picked up a camera in 2010 as a way to face the onset of her disability and accompanying limited mobility. She utilizes her experience working with the design process and interaction with people as a starting point to make photographic images. Christine believes everyday life and the beauty in ordinary moments should be taken seriously by creating a visual dialog that reflects on both us and our environment. Her photo essay Last Car Running and artist interview was published in Mono Visions and Don't Take Pictures Magazine, selected by the International Art & Artists for a solo exhibition at Hillyer Art Space in Washington, DC and featured at the HEAD ON Photo Festival Projections in Sydney, Australia. Christine lives in Tucson, Arizona.
Last Car Running
". . . a project that is at once a worthy piece of social history and a visual feast, featuring billows of white smoke, showers of sparks, barrel-necked drivers, and impromptu celebrations-punctuated with sledgehammers-on top of cars."
— Washington City Paper
AWARDS
2018 Honorable Mention, ONE Exhibition, NY Center for Photographic Arts, New York, NY
2017 Growley Organization, Artist Residency, San Francisco, CA
2016 Director’s Award, Travel Exhibition, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2015 Grin City Collective, Artist Residency, Grinnell, IA
Bill & Duane's Director's Scholarship, Missouri School of Journalism, MPW.67,
Perryville, MO
2014 Juror’s Choice Award, Contrast Exhibition, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2nd Place, New Creativity Exhibition, NY Center for Photographic Arts, New York, NY
3rd Place, FOTOWEEK DC, Photoworks SLAM, Washington, DC
Juror’s Choice Award, Wheels Exhibition, Darkroom Galley, Essex Junction, VT
2012 Nikon Merit Award / Santa Fe Workshops, Santa Fe, NM
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Haas Gallery, Bloomburg University, Bloomburg, PA
2016 Weinburg Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD
2015 Shenandoah County Fair, Woodstock, VA
2014 International Arts & Artists at Hillyer Arts Space, Washington, DC
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 The Curated Fridge, On the Road at PHOTOVILLE, Brooklyn, NY
Photoworks, Frank Van Riper's Mirror to the World, Glen Echo, MD
2016 HEAD ON Photography Festival Projections Program, Sydney, Australia
Exposed DC 10th Anniversary “Best Of Exhibition,” Foto Walk Underground, Arlington, VA
SE Center for Photography, On The Road Exhibition, Greenville, SC
A Smith Gallery, Gathering Exhibition, Johnson City, TX
2015 Grin City Artist Residency, Pop Up Exhibition, Grinnell, IA
American University Art Museum, Photoworks: Presence of Place, Washington, DC
Blank Wall Gallery, Portrait Exhibition, Athens, Greece
Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Focus National Juried Exhibition, Fredrick, MD
2014 Texas A & M University, Oso Bay Biennial XVII Documentary Photography: Home, Corpus Christi, TX
Gateway Arts Center 39th Street Gallery, Americana Exhibition, Brentwood, MD
Houston Center For Photography, 32nd Annual Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston, TX
Griffin Museum of Photography, 20th Annual Membership Exhibition Online Gallery, Winchester,MA
Exposed DC Annual Photography Contest, Long View Gallery, Washington, DC
MPLS Photography Center, Visual Narrative Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
Black Box Gallery, Portraiture Through the Lens, Portland, OR
2013 Photoworks, Frank Van Riper's Mirror to the World, Glen Echo, MD
FOTO WEEK DC, Foto Walk Underground, Arlington, VA
Vermont Photo Place Gallery, City Streets Country Roads, Middlebury, VT
Ballarat International Foto Biennale Projections Program, Ballarat, Australia
PUBLICATIONS
Mono Visions / Artist Interview, March 2015
Aspect:Ratio Magazine / Artist Interview, Jan. 2015
Don't Take Pictures Magazine / Artist Interview, Sept. 2014
Rear Curtain, August 2013
PRESS & REVIEWS
Washington City Paper, Mirror To The World Review, April 2017
Park Hills Leadington Chamber of Commerce, Missouri Photo Workshop, Jan. 2016
Washington City Paper, The Top 5 Photos Exhibited in DC This Year, December 2014
Washington City Paper, Last Car Running Review, Nov. 2014
Washington City Paper, Mirror To The World Review, March 2013
EDUCATION & WORKSHOPS
2017 Master Class with Frank Van Riper, Lubec, ME
2011-2016 Photoworks, Classes with Mark Power, Karen Keating, Gayle Rothchild, Sora DeVore & Frank Van Riper
2015 Missouri School of Journalism, Missouri Photo Workshop 67, Perryville, MO
2012 Eugene Richards Visual Storytelling Workshop, LOOK3 Festival of Photography, Charlotte, VA
2011 Maine Media Workshops, David H. Wells Street Photography, Rockport, ME
2011 Mary Ellen Mark, Oaxaca Workshop, Oaxaca, Mexico
1982 BFA Interior Architecture, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA