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                            Christine E. Alfery -Artist

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2009	Current Portfolios
		I love painting pictures and taking photos of things that are realistic but at the same time I like to take these realistic images and their forms, shapes, lines and allow different shapes, forms and lines to emerge by making them gesture and soft around the edges and playful. These playful emerging shapes and lines become abstract and the realistic image returns to an abstract form. These abstract forms I believe are what form used to be before language took over. For me taking a realistic form and turning it into some form of abstraction is like returning form back to it’s origins. I paint with watercolors and acrylics. I use colored pencils, India ink and graphite bars and whatever else lends itself to letting form and line emerge. I paint on various kinds of paper and canvas. Real objects never becomes frozen in time but are instead something that can be played with something that is imagined. I call this playground “Motley Space.”
Paintings	Photography