Christina Massey

Meat Market

traditionally framed paintings, tore and cut up into pieces that create three dimensional forms.

2009

Christina Massey

Hung Out to Dry

traditionally framed paintings, tore and cut up into pieces that create three dimensional forms.

2009

I use painting as a medium to convey the relationship of viewer to the Artist and Artwork itself.  The work draws on both general political topics and more subtly on issues with in the contemporary art world.  Often using space and word play to demonstrate purpose, the works can be taken both literally and abstractly.

Works are created with a method of building, tearing down and reconstructing again.  Traditionally stretched paintings are torn, cut, tied up and sewn back together into three-dimensional forms.  Often common materials such as denim, corduroy and other cotton-based clothing is used to emphasize texture, add meaning, and create a tactile quality.

While works can be individual, they perform as a group through the process of installation.  Singly they are abstract forms, each it’s own work of Art, but together they form representational references to a larger political meaning.  The works alone are like representations of the Artist self, though as a part of society, meaning the whole installation, they are a part of something larger.  It’s in the details, where the materials and process take on conceptual meaning in reference to the Art world itself.

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