ARTIST STATEMENT
I consider myself an interdisciplinary sculptor. I often employ my own body as a sculptural object to express agency over my own body and to collapse the relationship between the object and the maker. There is also a performative relationship between my work and my body and yet, even when I am performing, I consider myself to be sculpting. When I am making plastic work, I often incorporate ‘evidence’ of the construction of the work and of the maker– thus the sculpture itself becomes a crucible, a kind of performance, an index of the process of its making and plastic work all in one. These differing strategies are placed into conversation with one another through dancing, not only the physical dance but through the dance communication happening in all the processes of artmaking and art reception.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Christine Gaffney is an interdisciplinary sculptor from Dayton, Ohio. She holds a master’s in fine arts degree from California Institute of the Arts where she studied Art and Technology and Integrated Media. She has also studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. She holds a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Pittsburgh. Her practice embraces ideas around body image, body politics, and feminism including disability justice.
© Christine Gaffney