Christina Massey: Monoprint Collage Study in Red, 2017, linocut, collagraph, silkscreen, 21" x 17" x 1.5"

About:

Made during the SIP Fellowship at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in NYC. Works are a combination of collagraph, linocut and silkscreen prints. Each print is original, hand cut and collaged together using chine-collé techniques.

Plates were created as drawings of the artist's wall sculptures and translated into various forms of types of printmaking plates. The term "Carbonation" in their title hints at this origin as the sculptures are largely made from repurposed craft beer cans. It also refers to the carbonization of the environment.

"Collection" refers to the work as a series, but also their fabric inspirations. Each is titled after a season of the year that the fashion industry often uses to describe their collections and encourage consumerism.

The work has an abstracted botanical, almost vintage fabric appearance and this is a commentary on the way we think and describe seasons with Climate Change. Where we associate certain colors with temperatures and seasons that are now not what they used to be.

Bio:

Christina Massey's work has exhibited extensively in over a dozen solo exhibitions including such locations as the Blackbird Gallery in NYC, Dacia Gallery in NYC, Noyes Art Museum in Atlantic City, Rush Arts Galleries in NYC and Brown University in Providence, RI. She has won multiple awards for her work including most recently an FST StudioProject Fund Grant, Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant, SIP Fellowship at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Puffin Foundation Grant and Mayer Foundation Grant. Massey's work has been featured in such publications as Hyperallergic, Art Spiel and Art Fuse and is in the collections of the Janent Turner Museum, Art Bank Collection in DC, and multiple private collections. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

www.cmasseyart.com