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Growing up in Texas and as the daughter of an architect, design, spatial relationships, and raw handwork were a fundamental part of the world around me.
When I began painting, my search for subject matter led me back to childhood memories of annual road trips to South and West Texas, where big skies sat on top of flat, vast landscapes and my view was framed by the back seat window of our family’s Buick.
With its nuanced moods and graphic qualities, the play of light in nature continues to inspire my work. I’m always moved by how these simple, yet rich landscapes speak both universally and personally.
I generally paint in oils on either Yupo paper or linen canvas in a fairly narrow color palette of browns and grays. My tools are all sorts of humble “brushes” – usually the less prestigious the better. My paintings take form with a certain spontaneity and involve several layers. The first layer serves as a primer and includes a sketch, which is wiped off leaving a stained and less pristine surface. At this point, I often “draw” by extracting even more paint or add paint by sketching with either a brush or paper towel. In the end, it is always a very fast paced and active conversation between me, the surface and the paint.
Georgia Christensen
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Georgia Christensen is an artist whose vision has been expressed through painting, photography and design. At an early age, she developed a discerning sense for light, shadow, simplicity, shape and continuity. Some of which had to do with living under the big Texas sky and her father’s profession as an architect. She found painting to be an innate love that allowed her to translate, manipulate and explore these perceptions in a graphic way.
Throughout her twenty-five year career of shaping images and brands, she exercised these same skills on a commercial level, while practicing her art privately. Georgia’s work in advertising has garnered numerous awards and changed the landscape in retail marketing with the introduction of The Art of Fashion and The Book, for Neiman Marcus – a magazine designed to feature the work of artists such as Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Annie Leibovitz and Georf Kern among many others. In 1998, Time magazine recognized The Art of Fashion as one of the outstanding campaigns of the year.
Georgia is married and lives in Westport, CT. She and her husband, Chris, a photographer, have two children, Lizzy, an apparel designer working and living in New York and Will, a film student in Chicago. |
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University of North Texas, Denton, TX, BFA
Silvermine Guilde Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
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16 Partrick Lane, Westport, CT 06880 646.468.1980 glchristensen@optonline.net |
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