The Spiritual Landscape: Alternative Process Works 2004-2007
Atelier pH7 - May ­ June 2007
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61. Abundance: cyanotype over platinum
2. Gate: cyanotype over platinum zone plate image
3. Open: gum over cyanotype
4. Through the Glass Darkly: cyanotype over gum over cyanotype
5. Ghost: gum over cyanotype
6. Winter/Spring: gum over cyanotype
Artist statement:
There are certain images I am drawn to that make my pulse quicken and cause an involuntary inspiration of breath. I find this happening when looking at images that are classified as "sublime" where vast landscape vistas are colored in atmospheric light. I find this happening, surprisingly, when confronted by extreme tragedy-the New Orleans flood, for instance. When I spent a week in the southern United States photographing the aftermath of Katrina it was an altered state experience of the sublime that bordered on terror.
The sublime bordering on awe I also experience, for example, when lying among tall pine trees, looking up at the fading evening light filtering through their distant branches. I have come to realize that "inspiration" has both this physical reaction as well as a spiritual reaction that pulls us out of the temporal to something beyond.
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97. Storm: gum over cyanotype
8. Storm Brewing: gum over cyanotype
9. Schoolbus: gum over cyanotype
I have been exploring this continuum between sublime terror and awe, with the banal at its midpoint. I know that must seem odd that the banal exists on my sublime continuum, but I am inspired by the quotidian as well, sometimes leaning towards the terror end of things, sometimes towards awe.
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1210. Caution Series II: gum over cyanotype
11. Only: gum over cyanotype
12. Caution Series III: gum over cyanotype
The text in landscape images included in this exhibition ground the viewer in the banal but point to further interpretations.
1313. Unitarian Church: gum over cyanotype
At what point does an image move away from the banal and toward
the spiritual, and why? Is it the quality of light, or
blur, portrayed? Is it color, or implied space? Is
it possible to express the sublime with small images such as
are in this exhibition? What is it about an image that
tethers us to the here and now, to this temporal pain and pleasure
we exist in?
1414. Squirrel Squish: gum over cyanotype
Does laughter, as it forces a physical expiration of breath, deflate both physically and spiritually these kinds of thoughts? And what constitutes a spiritual landscape-horizon and land, or something else?
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1815. Fairy Lake: mordançage pinhole
16. Mummy: mordançage
17. Angel: mordançage
18. Path: mordançage
These are the kinds of questions I have been pondering that have determined some of the perhaps odd choices I have included in this exhibition.
19. Wrong Way: gum over cyanotype
Christina Z. Andersen - CV
Department of Media and Theatre Arts
406.994.6219
Montana State University
Email: czanderson@montana.edu
VCB Room 220
Website: CZAphotography.com
Bozeman, MT 59717-3350
Education:
2005
M.F.A. in photography, Clemson University, Clemson,
SC
2000
B.F.A. in painting, Montana State University, Bozeman,
MT
2000
B.A. in photography, Montana State University, Bozeman,
MT
1979
B.A. in French, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN, Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Awards and Grants:
2006 Short
Term Professional Development Leave grant in the amount of $3000
awarded for travel and research on the gum bichromate process
to Rochester New York
2006 Creative
Research Lab Applied Research Projects Grant Award of $1000 for
a collaborative printmaking/photography project, co-awarded with
Gesine Janzen
2004
Cecelia Voelker Award in graduate art history, faculty-chosen
award inrecognition for outstanding achievement in art and art
history, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
2002
Teacher's Award for Excellence, awarded by Montana State
University in conjunction with the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce
2000 Max
Hunke scholarship, faculty-chosen award for academic excellence
and career potential, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Publications:
Fabbri, Malin Alternative
Photography-Art and Artists 2007, two of my images from the Disaster
Series published
Anderson, Christina Z. Alternative Processes, Condensed-A Manual
of Gum Dichromate and Other Contact Printing Processes.
Bozeman , 2006.
The Experimental Photography Workbook, 4th Edition. Bozeman
, 2005.
Tutti Nudi--Reflections on the Reemergence of the Nude During
the Italian Renaissance. New York: Midmarch Arts
Press, 2000.
University Service:
Fall 2006-Present Appointed
Photo Option Coordinator, Media and Theatre Arts Department,
photography option
Summer 2006-Present Appointed to the Search
Committee, Department Head, Media and Theatre Arts Department
Invited Lectures:
Creativity and the Art of Alt, October 27-30 2006, lecture
given to students and faculty at Stephen F. Austin State University,
Nacogdoches, TX. Demonstrations of mordançage and
gum printing processes to the photography students
North American Modern Photography, May 22-June 8, lectures
given to the Art College of Beijing University, Beijing, the
China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, the Shangmei Media
College of the Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanjing, the China Academy
of Art, Xiang Shan Campus, Hangzhou, and the China Academy of
Art, Nan Shan Campus, Hangzhou
Consulting:
2006-Present Elected
to the Freestyle National Educational Advisory Board, advisin
both the corporation and its customers on current analog and
alternative photography practice
Professional Experience:
2006-Present Assistant
Professor and Photography Option Coordinator, Montana State University,
Bozeman, MT Teaching Experimental Photography, Non
Silver Photography, Non Fiction Photography, and Senior
Thesis
2005- 2006
Adjunct professor, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Teaching Advanced Black and White Photography, Experimental
Photography,
Senior Thesis, Nonsilver Processes, and Non-Fiction
Photography
2004-2005
Adjunct instructor, Clemson University , Clemson , SC
Teaching Beginning Photography and Visual Arts
2003-2004
Graduate assistant, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Assisting Printmaking and 2D Art Fundamentals
2000- 2003
Adjunct instructor, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Teaching Beginning Black and White Photography, Experimental
Photography,
and Senior Thesis
1999-Present
Owner of Z Photo, Fine Art Photography
Summers, 1999, 2000 Teaching assistant, Photographer's
Formulary Workshops, Condon , MT
Assisting Theresa Airey and Gordon Hutchings in workshops
Fall 1999
Teaching assistant, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Assisting Beginning Black and White Photography
Spring 1997
Teaching assistant, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Assisting Survey of Art History
Solo Exhibitions:
Summer 2007 The Spiritual
Landscape: Alternative Process Works 2004-2007, Atelier
pH7, Brussels, Belgium
Winter 2007 Alternative Visions: Christina
Z. Anderson/Amy Holmes Georg Kucera Gallery, Corpus Christi,
TX
Winter 2006 Love and Learn, Stonehouse
Gallery, Nisswa, MN
Summer 2005 Contemporary Vanitas, Robichaud
and Anderson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Spring 2005 The Chronic Ironic, Thesis
show, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Group Exhibitions, Invitational:
Fall 2006 Personal
Visions: Exhibition of Photography by American Professors,
Ping Yao International Photography Festival, Ping Yao, China,
curated by Sam Wang, organized by the Nanjing Arts Institute
Spring 2006 Experimental Photography, Emerson
Cultural Center, Bozeman, MT, curated by Ellen Ornitz
Summer 2005 Culmination 2, Lee Gallery, Clemson
University, Clemson, SC
Spring 2005 Authenticity of Memory:
Alternative Processes, Houston Center of Photography, Houston,
TX, curated by Clay Harmon
Spring 2004 Art of the Process, Glendale
College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA, curated by Jan Pietrzak
Spring 2002 Current Work, Faculty show,
Helen E. Copeland GallerMontana State University, Bozeman, MT
Group Exhibitions, Juried:
Winter 2007 Photography
as Witness, University of Maine, Lord Hall Galleries, Orono,
ME, Juror Dr. Michael Grillo, 8 large works accepted for a 6
person show
Fall 2006 Handcrafted, Visual
Edge 3, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center,Sacramento, CA,
jurors Mary Swisher and Kerik Kouklis, Nowhere Near Perfect
gum bichromate print won Honorable Mention
Summer 2006 Alternatives 2006, Quay School
of Art, Wanganui, New Zealan, curated by Elizabeth Cunane and
Rita Diebert
2005-2006 Southeastern Printmaking Invitational
traveling show, United States, curated by Denise Woodward
Spring 2005 CAA Regional MFA Exhibition, Lowe
Gallery, Atlanta, GA, curated by Bill Lowe and Robin Dana
Spring 2004 Expressive Images-Intimate Photography,
The Gallery, Keeble and Shuchat Photography, Palo Alto, CA, curated
by Jim Flack