About
At age 14 Christine read Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung. This book had a powerful influence on her. It was her first encounter with the concept of the unconscious and the meaning of dreams. She became convinced that the unconscious is an underlying driving force in the human psyche.
In 1971, at college, she worked with Richard Pousette-Dart, a member of the NY Abstract Expressionists. His revolutionary approach to art making has fueled her creative process ever since. Richard encouraged his students to let paintings unfold intuitively from the depths of the psyche, to let the painting emerge on its own terms.
As an art therapist, Christine worked at 4 Winds Hospital and, in 2010, founded the Rockland Living Museum at Rockland Psychiatric Center. The Living Museum was an open art studio for individuals with chronic and deep psychiatric issues. During her tenure, she had rich relationships with numerous artists. She saw directly the power of art to help people organize themselves internally, to self-soothe and focus, and to build positive self-regard and confidence. Art was of tremendous benefit to clients’ well-being.
In 2018, Christine had surgery for a broken wrist. She is right-handed and was unable to use her right hand for 4 months. During this time, she did a series of drawings using her left hand. She discovered how using her nondominant hand gave her more direct access to her right brain and emotions. The drawings were subsequently shown at the Hopper House in Nyack.
Currently, Christine is a co-founder of DovetailArts.org. Through Dovetail, she leads and co-leads weekly online workshops that explore innovative and experimental approaches to art and writing. Art and writing intersect and open up new and unexpected channels of self-expression.
Christine is very dedicated to her art. She uses art to explore mental health issues, both personal and universal. For her, art is a channel to her deeper Self. Like dreams, art brings Christine messages of great value.
"My own work emerges from an intuitive, spontaneous process rooted in my practice as an art therapist. I do not plan my images; instead, I begin with free, unconscious doodling that opens a pathway beyond cognitive control. As forms surface, I follow them. The process is organic, allowing the unconscious to speak in its own language.
Art for me is catharsis. Much of what I carry internally–rage, despair, grief–finds release through the act of creating. By externalizing these internal states, the work is both a container and a conduit, transforming emotional pressure into a visual narrative.
In the past few years, my art has taken on an explicitly political dimension. The realities of war, displacement, deportation, environmental destruction, and violence against women reverberate in my psyche and inevitably inform what seeps into my art. These themes enter as psychic pressures–forces that insist on being seen. The resulting images are raw, unsettled, and often dissonant."
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Solo Exhibitions: 1989, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC 2002-2009, Garnerville Arts Center 2004, Pomona Cultural Center, New York 2012, Rockland Center for the Arts, RoCA New York 2013, Queens Museum, New York 2019, Hopper House, Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, NYC 2021, Pomona Cultural Center, New York Group Exhibitions: 2006, Rockland Center for the Arts 2025, “Joyful Apocalypse”, Van Der Plas Gallery 2025, “Rivington Renaissance”, Van Der Plas Gallery 2025, “Pictorial Coherence”, Van Der Plas Gallery Education: 1975, Sarah Lawrence College BA, under Abstract Expressionist Richard Poussete-Dart, NY 1980, Pratt Institute MPS, NYC