Release the Moorings: Christine Texiera
January 26 - February 28, 2020
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 26 from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Artist Statement:
This series contemplates flight and transportation as a metaphor for personal change. In these pieces, the sleek dirigibles and birds become entangled in their environment, halting their potential for loft. The focal images have the potential to rise, but their surrounding milieu interrupts them.
The work is given physical depth and a sense of momentum by building layers of clear medium over images rendered in acrylic paint. This achieves the aim of creating lightness, while fostering a sense that the elements might be able to break free.
This body of work took shape as a response to my experience as a foster parent. Like the animals and objects in this series, families living with trauma struggle to break free of all the entanglements that ensnare them. Witnessing this process can be bitter and heartbreaking for the whole family, and yet—sometimes they all rise.
Sunday 2/9 2:30-4:30 PM Free but space is limited.
Learn Christine’s paint pouring technique, how to prepare a panel, mix paint & mediums, pour and complete a painting. Materials will be provided however participants are encouraged to bring in additional acrylic paints that they may have.
Due to the drying time involved with the clear medium, participants will be given supplies to complete their projects at home.
Artists Bio: Christine Texiera received a degree in Mathematics from the University of Lowell. Due to scheduling competition she was forced into the notoriously time intensive, Drawing 101 class. She was instantly hooked on figure drawing. She spent 10 years drawing with the Naked Ladies drawing collective in New Salem. She is interested in art journaling, collage and mixed media. She has been painting using various techniques for 20 years. In 2016, she began mixing acrylics with poring medium to create her multi layered paintings. Since then she has shown them through Western MA and has held numerous workshops to share her technique. Born and raised around Lowell MA, she now resides in Wendell MA and has a studio in Millers Falls.
