[-empyre-] Sensuous

[Renate Ferro]

For some reason this email did not go out to the list yesterday.  I resend ita gain. 

Dear Christina and to all of you,
I am responding quickly for now but will respond in depth more later tonight.
First forgive me for not updating your short bio which I copy below.

Thank you so much for sharing your drawings and it is so wonderful for you to join us again.  Is there handmade paper that I see?  How amazingly lush they are-- especially in light of the fact that most of us have been sitting in front of our screens and ZOOM these past few weeks.  Please share more about the making of these amazingly sensuous pieces.  
I post the link you shared
http://www.christinamcphee.net/trekking-toward-a-hellish-plight-caminando-al-tormento/

I also have a series of very large drawings that I am attempting to work on between my screened sentence of late.  I am curious to hear what other -empyre- subscribers are doing with their down time away from technological screen.  The lyrical poems you share take me away to such a different zone than this one I write in this afternoon.  We all need a place of centeredness.  That sounds rather cliché but I feel that it is more important than ever right now.

Updated Biography:  
Christina McPhee is a North American mid-career visual artist of European descent, working in drawing, painting, and electronic media. Her map-like, contingent, topologic works, through low relief and tesselated forms, reflect on shapeshifting, intersubjectivity, and ecologies. Solo museum exhibitions include American University Museum in Washington, DC and Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden. Internationally, she has shown in museum exhibitions at MAMM (Colombia), Bildmuseet, and Thresholds Perth (Scotland); as well as documenta 12 and Bucharest Biennial 3. American museum collections of her work include the ICP and Whitney Museum of American Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Sheldon Museum. She received the MAP award for performance in 2012 with Pamela Z for their collaborative intermedia work, Carbon Song Cycle. Born in Los Angeles, she lives and works in southern California. (Pronouns: she/her) www.christinamcphee.net

Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rferro at cornell.edu

Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rferro at cornell.edu