Christina McPhee
& T.L. Solien
Swerve/Collide
February 6 – 28, 2021
Two artists take abstraction around the bend. Swerve/Collide transmits sudden arrivals and precarious reports. They riff on strains of Americana, modernist style, seriality, and wild hybrids, with luscious results.
Biographies
Christina McPhee’s images move from within a matrix of abstraction, shadowing figures and contingent effects. Her work emulates potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, and in real and imagined ecologies. Her new paintings in the series Trickster-Utopia, arise from the shocks of global pandemic and political upheaval in the time of climate transformation. Her Shapeshifter drawings will show in 2021 for Otherwise/Revival at Bridge Projects, Los Angeles. Born in LA, Christina McPhee studied at Scripps College, Claremont and Kansas City Art Institute, and was a student of Philip Guston (Boston University MFA 1979). Her subsequent career has engaged with abstraction and landscape across media, including video, photomontage, drawing, and painting. Museum collections include the Whitney Museum of American Art, International Center for Photography, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; and Thresholds New Media Collection, Scotland. Solo museum exhibitions include the American University Museum, Washington, D.C. and and Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, for her project Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries (2007) on seismic memory. Solo gallery shows include Irenic Projects, Pasadena (2020); Cerritos College Art Gallery, (2016); Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (2009), and Sara Tecchia, New York (2006). She has participated in many international group exhibitions, notably with documenta 12 (2007), Bucharest Biennial 3, the Museum of Modern Art Medellin, and California Museum of Photography/Digital Studio. She is a Ucross Foundation fellowship artist (2019). Christina McPhee lives and works in central coast California.
www.christinamcphee.net
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T.L. Solien, born in Fargo North Dakota in 1949, received a BA degree in Art from Moorhead State University, Moorhead MN in 1973, and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1977. Solien has been invited to participate in numerous exhibitions of National and International magnitude including, the 1983 Whitney Biennial, the 39th Biennial of American Painting at the Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.; Avant-Grade in the 80”s, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The American Artist as Printmaker, Brooklyn Museum NY; Images and Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and Contemporary Drawings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Solien’s work has been visible in over 35 solo exhibitions in the last 25 years, and was the subject of a 25 -year retrospective titled, “T.L. Solien: Myths and Monsters” organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI. T.L. Solien has been the recipient of numerous honors, including multiple Bush Foundation and Jerome Foundation fellowships, University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Grants, and has been named “Outstanding Alumni” at both the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Moorhead State University, MN. In 2008 Solien was awarded a fellowship from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and in 2010 received a Wisconsin State Arts Board fellowship. Solien held teaching positions at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; and the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI. Solien retired from teaching in 2020. Solien is represented in numerous corporate and public collections including, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Walker Art Center, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Chase Manhattan Bank, Exxon Corporation, New York University, Indiana University Art Museum, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, and the Chazen Museum, Madison, WI , The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; and the Milwaukee Museum of Art.
Solien is represented by OTI Gallery, Los Angeles CA, and Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee WI.