Christina Harrington Christina, an abstract artist “creates works of art from the hues, textures, and forms of paper and from the landscapes that enter her imagination.” She has also been inspired by a recent trip to the Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas, and has created a services of collages based on the vivid colors and textures of this magnificent and primitive landscape. Much of the paper is purchased from Kate’s Paper in the SoHo section of Manhattan, but Christina also uses other sources such as rice paper that she “dyes” with waster color paints and inks. She has also mastered making paper from the Mulberry plant and recycling paper from magazines and other mail into collage paper. While in college majoring in accounting, Christina took several art appreciation classes and started buying prints, mainly Dekooning and Kandinsky, regarded as fathers of abstract art. Christina has studied collage and monoprints with Lester Sprague and woodcuts with Rosamaria Eisler. She has won awards for her collages, monoprints and woodcuts, most recently second place in the Wet Paints Juried Show for her collage “Red Rock Canyon.”
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