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Christine Herman is a printmaker whose abstract works on paper are inspired by the immeasurable beauty of nature. Her focus is to create work that celebrates the sacredness and rhythms of the natural world. A first generation Canadian with Slavic roots, she now lives in Northern California.

While still practicing as an interior designer, Christine first began exhibiting watercolors in galleries and art fairs in the Midwest. However, a pivotal decision to move to New Mexico in 1999 spurred her to discover and fall in love with printmaking. She began studying at University of New Mexico at Taos, honing her skills and developing her imagery via the monotype process (one-of-a-kind images which are a blend of painting and printmaking). She later expanded her studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and the University of Minnesota at Duluth.

Christine's distinctive work is process-driven in response to her experiences while hiking or cycling in nature. Expressing the story of the passage of time, alluding to memory, and a sense of place, she imbues her images with a delicate sensuality transporting one's imagination to the inner landscape of heart and mind.

Using photographic references, she employs mark-making and textured color fields to create abstract multi-layered compositions. The main aim of her approach is to create a kind of meditative journey while inviting the viewer to a deeper appreciation and connection with nature through the metaphor of landscape and botanical forms.

As a life-long creative explorer, Christine continually improvises and innovates by combining different printmaking techniques, including collagraph, woodcut, etching, monotype, and book arts.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 Reveal & Conceal, International Online Exhibition

2020 What’s in a Mark, Remarque Print Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2019 Speaking to the Imagination, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2019 7th International Juried Print Exhibition, Remarque Print Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2018 Free Fall, Remarque Gallery, Albuquerque

2018 Movers & Shakers, New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM

2017 Wilderness: Land Untrammeled, Page Coleman Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2016 Pressient, Weyrich Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2016 Roads & Rhymes, Essence Gallery, Albuquerque

2015 Opening Doors for Women in the Arts, Albuquerque, NM

2014 Imprints of Home, Weyrich Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2013 Northern Printmakers Alliance/Northshore Bank of Commerce Show, Duluth, MN

2012 Closer to the Bone, South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM

2012 Unfurled:Drifting into the Unknown, Weyrich Gallery, Albuquerque

2011 Fall & Spring New York Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY

2011 Transitions/Translations, New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque

2011 Unfurled, Penny George Institute for Health & Healing, Minneapolis

2010 Fall New York Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY

2010 Northern Summer, Northern Prints Gallery, Duluth, MN

2009 Process & Paradox, Curly Tale Fine Art Gallery, Chicago

2008 Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT

2007 5/5 Prints, Perfect Pear Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007 Source & Metaphor, Nina Bliese Gallery, Minneapolis

2006 Red: Invitational Exhibition, Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI

2006 View Beneath the Surface, Northern Prints Gallery, Duluth, MN

2006 Surfaces, Northfield Arts Guild, Northfield, MN

2005 New Work, Northern Prints Gallery, Duluth, MN

2005 View Beneath the Surface, Cornucopia Art Center, Lanesboro, MN

2004 Prints on Ice, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN

2003 No. 3, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN

2001 Sources, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN

2000 Student Exhibition, University of New Mexico, Taos, NM

1999 Works Printed at Graphic Impressions, Gallery Elena, Taos, NM

AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS & RESIDENCIES

2020 What’s in a Mark, exhibition catalogue

2019 U.K. House & Garden, October Art Edition

2013 Su Casa, Summer

2010 Process + Paradox’ exhibition catalogue

2008 Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Artist Residency,Red Wing,MN

2008 ‘Trail Guide:The Northland Experience Poetry & Prints”’Calyx Press

2006 ‘Response: Prints & Poetry’ Calyx Press

2005 ‘Dust & Fire: Annual Anthology of Women’s Writings’, Bemidji State

2004 ‘Shared Visions Poetry & Prints”’ Calyx Press

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Facey Medical, Valencia, CA

Oakbend Medical Group, Richmond, TX

University Physicians-Grants Ferry, Flowood, MS

Great Plains Women’s Health Center, Williston, ND

Reckson Associates Realty Corporation, Ryebrook, NY

United Health Group, Phoenix, AZ

Wells Fargo, Duluth, MN

United Health Group, Minnetonka, MN

Fairview Riverside Hospital, Minneapolis, MN

Brae Burn Country Club, Purchase, NY

Noran Neurological Clinic, Minneapolis, MN

Regions Hospital, St. Paul, MN

Northern Iowa Endodontics, Cedar Falls, IA

Dar a Luz Birth and Health Center, Albuquerque, NM

Central Lakes College, Music Department, Brainerd, MN

Riverfront Condominiums, Minneapolis, MN

McGladrey & Pullen, St. Paul, MNPartnership Resources Inc., St. Paul, MN

Lakeview Hospital, Stillwater, MN

Henson & Efron, Minneapolis, MN

Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee, WI

Carle Heart & Vascular Institute, Champaign, IL

University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI

Trover Health, Madisonville, KY

EDUCATION

University of Manitoba, Bachelor of Interior Design Degree & BA Psychology, Winnipeg, Canada