Dust to Dust Series *Ongoing Loan-Elkland Art Center-Todd *Solo Exhibit-Todd Mercantile-Todd-2008 *Solo Exhibit-BeansTalk-Boone-2008
Recent Encaustic Works *Juried Exhibition-Nth Gallery-Boone-2008
Song For the Rising Series *Ongoing Loan-Elkland Art Center-Todd *Solo Exhibit-Todd Mercantile-Todd-2008 *Solo Exhibit-Open Door Gallery-Boone-2008
Recent Works *Glow Art Exhibits-Boone-North Carolina-2007/2008
Salvaged Stories Series *Broyhill Inn-International Expressive Arts Therapy Association Conference-Boone-2007
Select Works *Ongoing Loan-Mountain Laurel Clinic-Boone
Background
B.A. in Visual Art from Goshen College, Indiana, 2000 B.A. in Psychology from Goshen College, Indiana, 2000
Also Attended University of Maryland and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina
As well as doing studio artwork, Charlotte has worked with homeless women in Washington, D.C., taught elementary art education on the Hopi Reservation, coordiated a peace advocacy program in Colombia, South America and done trauma-healing work in Colombia and currently in Nepal.
Contact her about her artwork at charlotteshristi@yahoo.com
I represent interior spaces of the human experience using the natural object as metaphor. A work's meaning often arises only after exploration of the play of tangible elements of color, texture, form and light.
Themes that arise are primarily solitary figures or objects within an atmospheric abstraction...perhaps representing interior stillness, the space where compassion is born. My work expresses a subtle sense that the time for individual growth and drastic change has arrived, the old must be shed as only new ways of being and doing will make continuance of the human story possible. Our movement must be toward life, in more cooperative, symbiotic ways. But at present my art has not taken me beyond the individual inner journey that will lead to this collective one.
The Dust to Dust series uses acrylic paint, graphite, paper and plants. The Song for the Rising series uses encaustic, a process of painting with molten pigmented wax on panels. Encaustic medium allows me immediate experimentation with texture and layering. It allows incorporation of drawing in the form of incised lines (known as sgrafitto,) collage and mixed media elements.
