Christine Gallagher

My eyes see the common and ordinary as remarkable. I search for a discrete moment, A realization, A connection among the disconnect. To quiet the fear of loss, of disappearance. To later become a part of a collection of things — to be anchored to a new moment, new idea. To be symbolic of — to be part of. I have a great need to free or release from entanglements this superabundance of substance.

My work is Pretty / Thoughtful or Pretty Thoughtful __I like many things about what I do, how I do it and what it ends up being. __I like materials -- they way they might combine (like paper and varnish), the things they represent (like the stitching of thread as a domestic reference, a line, a closure, a seam). __I like the neutrality of grays and whites with a bit of color like red or cyan. __I like pedestrian ‘things’ (teeth, diagrams, glasses) that when represented transform from something unconsidered to something undeniable, something to spend time with in an unexpected way. __I like how words and meanings of words can shift depending context, composition and communication. __I like sparsity -- that ideas can occur, grow, or settle at spaced intervals allowing for a kind of flexibility in the understanding of them. __I like that there is a kind of intended stickiness to interpretations -- that interpretations depend on physical and metaphysical relationships. __I like making and being involved with my hands and my mind.

I am a designer, a fellow farmer, and a professor of Graphic Design.