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Christina Kerns
About
Christina Kerns is an artist currently living and working in Philadelphia who uses photography to create an alternate world using appropriated imagery. After leaving her home town of Oklahoma City, she moved to Brooklyn and received her BFA in Photography/ minor in Art History from Pratt Institute and is currently working toward her MFA from The University of Pennsylvania. She has been published and shown work in New York and London.
Vignettes' Statement:
Christina Kerns's dreamlike vignettes are created with appropriated imagery and small props. Using a Technicolor palette that makes the scenarios seem more imaginary than real, the images are initially set up as dioramas. Kerns’s jagged edges and deliberately messy composition mimic the rough way in which our memories are muddled together.
The images are culled from ideas and pictures we are bombarded with by mass media. Kerns’s mash-ups reflect the way films, games, magazines, and advertisements influence our thoughts and dreams and mesh together to form a skewed reminiscence of one’s past and of reality.
This work references the surreal and nostalgic sculptures of Joseph Cornell, the Dada collages of Hannah Höch and the postmodern photographs of Laurie Simmons; all of these artists create work with appropriated imagery in order to express societal conventions, stereotypes and clichés. The unrefined, childlike and surprising methods of her constructions simultaneously poke fun at and pass judgment on the follies and foibles of our contemporary world.
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- Location
- Philadelphia
- Website
- http://www.christinakerns.com
http://www.ethosart.com
Gallery Exhibitions
"Social Security"
October 14, 2010
Curating Group Exhibition: Bond Street Gallery. Brooklyn, NY. Visit Site
"New Americana"
August 26, 2010
Curating/ Exhibiting (Group Show): Bond Street Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.Visit Site
Greenpoint Gallery Group Show
Apr 9, 2010
Gallery Exhibition. Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Young Talent in Oklahoma Anniversary Show
March 2010
Gallery Exhibition. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
"The Art of Fashion"
Jan 22, 2010
Gallery Exhibition. Webster Hall, New York, NY.
"Recessive Traits-- in the absence of the dominant element"
Nov 2009
Gallery Exhibition. Broadway Gallery, New York, NY.
"NO. 27"
Dec 2008
Online Group Exhibition. Humble Arts Foundation. New York, NY. Visit Site
"Collective Disorder"
Nov- Dec 2008
Gallery Exhibition. Holster Projects, London, UK. Visit Site
"10th Annual Collage, Digital & Mixed Media International Online Exhibition"
June 2008- June 2009
Online Exhibition. Visit Site
"Vignettes"
Nov 2007
Gallery Exhibition. Brooklyn, NY.
"Fifty Photographs by Twenty-Nine People."
May 2007
Gallery Exhibition. 111 Front St., Brooklyn, NY.
Photography Major's Showcase.
April '05 & '06
Pratt Institute Photo Dept. Brooklyn, NY.
Scholastic Art and Writing regional silver and gold winner.
2003
Judged gallery show and ceremony. Tulsa, OK.
Oklahoma City Capital Show for Young Arts Month.
2003
Oklahoma City, OK.
Auctions
Inclusion in Lyon and Turnbull's Contemporary At Auction
Oct 2009
London, UK
Publications
Matchbox Magazine: Editorial on 'Vignettes' at Holster Projects (London, UK.) View article/ View full tear
Nov 2008
Photographer's Forum: Best of Photography 2008
Dec 2008
Artdoxa Featured Artist (October 28, 2008) www.artdoxa.com View Screen shot
Oct 2008
Education
2007
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
BFA in Photography & minor in Art History. Cum Laude
2003
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah GA.
Summer courses in photography.
2004
Casady School, Oklahoma City OK.
High School Diploma, Cum Laude. William Walker Fine Arts Award.
Work Experience
June 2010-Present
Michael Priest Photography: digital tech / retoucher
Photo processing/ Retouching
August 2008-Present
Robert DiScalfani Photography: assistant/ studio manager
Assist on shoots/ Post Production/ Studio manager, Bond Street Studio
August 2008-Jan 2010
Sparky Campanella: assistant/ apprentice
Artist's Apprentice
June 2008
Chieco Studio: assistant
Assist in studio and on location/ Digital Tech.
Fall 2007
Ayson Group: internship
Photoshop and studio assisting. … Read More
2013 (expected)
MFA University of Pennsylvania: PennDesign
Dec 2007
BFA Pratt Institute
Photography, minor in Art History
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