CHRISTIE KIRCHNER
The Rusty Toque | Issue 10 | Visual Art | June 30, 2016
STATEMENT ON WORK
Multidisciplinary artist Christie Kirchner’s work explores the meaning inherent in process, materiality and the act of making. Christie draws inspiration from the repetitive actions, domestic rituals, and symbolic objects and materials that are intrinsic to her daily life and personal narrative. Created through similarly repetitious drawing and printmaking methods, the imagery in her work is formed by delicate and rhythmic marks that evoke the cyclical experience of time and memory.
Multidisciplinary artist Christie Kirchner’s work explores the meaning inherent in process, materiality and the act of making. Christie draws inspiration from the repetitive actions, domestic rituals, and symbolic objects and materials that are intrinsic to her daily life and personal narrative. Created through similarly repetitious drawing and printmaking methods, the imagery in her work is formed by delicate and rhythmic marks that evoke the cyclical experience of time and memory.
CHRISTIE KIRCHNER received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Drawing from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2009, and completed a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Printmaking at York University in 2014. A dedicated arts administrator as well as a practicing artist, Christie is the former Director of the Alberta Printmakers’ Society and Artist Proof Gallery in Calgary, and is currently the Fund Development Coordinator for Artscape in Toronto. She has exhibited in Eastern and Western Canada, and internationally in Europe. Website: christiekirchner.com