has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
Recent Activities of and on Christina Kerns
About me
Christina Kerns (ckerns)
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.
- Biography
Christina Kerns is currently pursuing her MFA in photography from The University of Pennsylvania - Penn Design. Christina received her BFA in Photography/ minor in Art History from Pratt Institute in December 2007. She has been published and shown work in New York and London.
- 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 SiteGreenpoint 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."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.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.)
Photographer's Forum: Best of Photography 2008
Dec 2008
Vincent Koppen wrote on February 01, 2011 15:38:
Hi Christina,
I love your work!
Vincent
Maria Gust wrote on November 22, 2009 12:45:
Hi Christina! Thank you für adding "Beijing Oper" to your favourites!
:-)
Maria