Christine Gizzi

“My paintings are visual documentations of memories, thoughts, and feelings surrounding an event or series of events, sacred moments in our everyday life; meditations on the possibilities of an afterlife or really anything that has profound impact on my life. It could be as simple as saving the life of a carpenter ant that ventured into my space, or a hornworm on the stalk of a tomato plant raised from seed.

To me they’re internal landscapes and visual prayers reminiscent of woven textiles, crocheted lace gifted by my grandmother, or made by me, and both personal and found objects.

The reduction of form to fluid linear pattern and line is the result after exploring and simplifying thought and eliminating imagery which is my ultimate goal. Grid emerges through these layers of liquid line…becoming non-verbal expressions of ideas not easily articulated into words. We’re always in flux as are the bodily fluids that flow beneath our skin.

This flow, this fluid line is what I express in my work. The grid is the fluid line of life masking the images that lie beneath.”

- Christine Gizzi