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Christine Gray
Feb 27 - March 27
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Exhibition - CV
Late Lights, 2010
Oil on linen
80” x 108”
Glow-Lure Tears for Moth Mass, 2009
Oil on linen
84” x 65”
Rites Left Leaves, 2010
Oil on canvas
72” x 60”
Closer and Closer, 2009
Oil on panel
40” x 30”
Under Over Spark and Ember, 2009
Oil on panel
53” x 38”
Wandering Excavator, 2008
Oil on panel
42” x 46”
Conjure II, 2009
Watercolor on paper
22” x 15”
Daisy Drain, 2009
Watercolor on paper
22” x 15”
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Christine Gray
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EDUCATION
[2007]
MFA, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
[2003]
BFA, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
[1998]
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
[2010]
RARE, New York, New York, February 2010.
Into the Light, Okay Mountain, Austin, Texas, January 2010.
[2009]
GAZER, Cress Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, October 2009.
Andrea Cohen and Christine Gray, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, D.C., August 2009.
Depth of Field: Christine Gray and Terri Weifenbach, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, January 2009.
[2008]
Spring Thaw, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 2008, essay by Kriston Capps.
[2007]
Mimeographic Spectrum, Okay Mountain, Austin, Texas, July 2007
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
[2009]
2010 Young Painters Competition: Finalist Exhibition, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, December 2009. Juried by Rapheala Platow.
8x12, RARE, New York, New York, November 2009.
Antler Necklace, Half Dozen Gallery, Portland, Oregon, November 2009. Curated by Amber Vilas.
FEED, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, June 2009. Juried by Ashley Kistler and Mark Sloan.
[2008]
SCOPE Miami, RARE booth, Miami, Florida, December 2008.
Aqua Wynwood, Project 4 booth, Miami, Florida, December 2008.
Particularities and Abstractions, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, October 2008.
Ultrasonic International III: Elementary, My Dear Watson, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California, September 2008. (catalog)
Almost Famous, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, September 2008.
Works on Paper, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, August 2008.
Small Claims, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, August 2008.
SCOPE NY, Project 4 Booth, Lincoln Center, New York, New York, March 2008.
2, Project 4 Gallery, Washington, D.C., February 2008.
New Work, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, January 2008.
[2007]
Aqua Art Fair, Project 4 Booth, Aqua Hotel, Miami, Florida, December 2007.
True Métier: Call For Entries 2006-2007, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California, September 2007, Catalog with essays by Frederick Janka and Elizabeth Lovero; Juried by Laurel Beckman (UCSB), Aimee Chang (OCMA), Rita Gonzales (LACMA), Dane Goodman (SBCC), and Clara Kim (REDCAT).
Compass 2007, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, California, July 2007, Catalog with essays by Tyler Stallings and Ciara Ennis.
High 5: Emerging Art in America, CW Network Headquarters, Burbank, California, June 2007, Curated by Regine Basha, Ben Haywood, Matthew Higgs, Kathryn Kanjo, and Kristan Kennedy with catalog essay by David Pagel
Elemental Tangents, The University Art Museum, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California, February 2007
[2006]
Bright Young Things, The Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, August 2006
[2005]
2005 Texas Biennial, Bolm Studios, Austin, Texas, March 2005, Catalog with essay by Dana Friis-Hansen.
[2004]
Truffle Shuffle, Camp Fig, Austin, Texas, October 2004
Retreat!, Supplemen+ at Chruch of the Friendly Ghost, Austin, Texas, February 2004
AWARDS
[2010]
$10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award, 2010 Miami University Young Painters Competition
[2009]
Finalist, 2010 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award. (Winner TBD)
Jentel Foundation Resident Fellow, (Residency upcoming in 2010)
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency Fellowship
Golden Foundation Fellowship
7 Below Arts Initiative Residency Fellowship
Faculty Research Reassignment, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University
[2008]
Dean’s Faculty Research Grant Recipient, Virginia Commonwealth University
[2007]
Dean’s Faculty Research Grant Recipient, Virginia Commonwealth University
Levitan Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara
[2005]
Chancellor's Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara.
Juror's Choice Award, 2005 Texas Biennial
PUBLICATIONS AND SELECT PRESS
Denise Stuart-Sanabria, Review: Johnston Foster + Christine Gray, Art Papers, January/Februrary 2010, p 56.
Lisa Radon, “Review: Antler Necklace at Half/Dozen,” Culturephile: Portland Arts blog, Portland Monthly Magazine, Noveber 27, 2009.
Michael Crumb, “Devotion: The Art of Play,” The Chattanooga Pulse, October 28, 2009.
Ann Nichols, “'Sticky Situation'/'Gazer': Two bodies of work by Virginia Artists Open at UTC on Tuesday,” Times Free Press, October 11, 2009.
Andy Kozlowski, Review: Feed Biennial, Art Papers, October/November 2009.
Bird Cox, “Spiritual Geometry: Christine Gray Sifts Through Layers of America,” Brick Weekly, September 4-10, 2008.
Heather Silva, “Ultrasonic International III: Elementary My Dear Watson,” Flavorpill, Issue 288, September 2, 2008.
J.W. Mahoney, “To a different drum: in the 50 years since the Color School drew international notice, D. C.'s artists have mostly worked at a slight remove from the contemporary art world at large", Art in America, May 2008.
Kriston Capps, “Spring Thaw” Exhibition essay, Project 4 Gallery.
Jessica Dawson, “Christine Gray’s Household Helpers,” The Washington Post, April 25, 2008.
Rachel Sitkin, “Spring Thaw Review”, B-more Art, April 29, 2008.
Maura Judkis, “Spring Thaw,” Washington City Paper, April 30, 2008.
Tim Bowring, “Interview with Christine Gray,” Zero Hour, WRIR, Richmond, Virginia, November 20, 2007.
Melissa Seley, “CAF Celebrates Tri-County Artists with True Métier,” Santa Barbara Independent, September 20, 2007.
Josef Woodard, “Call for a Calling,” Santa Barbara News Press, September 14-20, 2007.
“Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum: An Artist’s True Métier,” CASA Magazine, September 7, 2007.
Salvador Castillo, “Christine Gray: Mimeographic Spectrum,” Austin Chronicle, July 20, 2007.
Josef Woodard, “Becoming Part of Art: UCSB grad students’ work reflects a more interactive reality,” Santa Barbara News Press, May 4, 2007.
Colin Gardner, “The Mirror Crack’d: On the Uses and Abuses of Formalism for Life,” catalog essay from MFA Thesis Exhibition.
David Pagel, High Five: Emerging Art in America, catalog essay.
Ciara Ennis and Tyler Stallings, Compass 2007: New Art from the University of California’s MFA Programs, catalog essay.
Frederick Janka and Elizabeth Lovero, True Métier: Call For Entries 2006-2007, catalog essay.
Josef Woodard, “Hidden in Plain Sight,” Santa Barbara News Press, September 1-7, 2006.
Rebecca S. Cohen, “Texas Biennial 2005.” Artlies, Spring 2005, No. 46.
J R Compton, “The 2005 Texas Biennial: The Illusive 3rd Dimension.” Dallas Arts Revue, March, 2005.
Austin Chronicle, Volume 24, No. 30, March 25, 2005.
Elaine Wolff, “Digital-induced angst and sensory overload”. San Antonio Current, March, 10, 2005.
New American Paintings, Number 54, 2004. (back cover image)