Christina Hale

My work can be viewed on line at .

I am an artist and a musician. My musics can be found on you tube.

I completed a tarot deck during the CoVId shut down … the originals and decks can be purchased via our website at .

Drawings, Paintings, Music....
Biography

I was born in San Francisco and raised in Los Angeles. In high school I was influenced by the paintings of Sam Francis ...inspired by his work and the graffiti of the Bay Area I began to focus on art in Oakland. I studied painting, film and drawing at the San Francisco Art Institute. After two years I returned to U.C. Berkeley, graduating with a BA in Art. While at UCB I worked at the Berkeley Repertory Theater and studied music at Laney College. I studied poetry with Ishmael Reed at UCB and documentary film with Les Blank. Also interested in music I began studying rhythm with CK Lapzepko and Butch Haynes. Irv Tepper, my sculpture teacher invited me to New York City in 1996. I taught summer school art in Brooklyn and Harlem as well as beginning to draw seriously. A curator I met there, Jim Harithas would later introduce me to Paul Schimmel and Robert Berman. I did my first solo shows with Robert Berman. Rothko, Egon Schiele, Pollack, Frida Kahlo, Klimt, Basquiat, Raymond ...

1996 School of Visual Art , NYC
1989-1994 UC Berkeley, CA - BA Art
1991-1993 SFAI, San Francisco
1988 Alliance Francaise, Paris
1982-1988 Marlborough High School, Los Angeles
2016 Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg

Robert Berman Gallery
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art
1998 "Westside Prostitution" - RBG Santa Monica
1999 "The Death of a Sorcerer" -Galaxy Gallery Los Angeles
2001 "Executive Mansion, Hotel California" RBG, Santa Monica
2003 "Cinderella Strain" -photography Galaxy Gallery, LA
2003 "Sickside Clockwork" - Zero One Gallery, LA
2012 "The Smoking Gun" - RBG, Santa Monica
2016 "Muzzle" - Santa Monica Airlines/Tony Converse, LA
2022 "The Crown Deck Tarot" RBG Santa Monica

Group Shows
1990-1992 Spring Exhibition, SFAI San Francisco
1993 "Group Show" -UC Berkeley
1993 "Wet Paint" -Southern Exposure Gallery,SF
1995-1997 "A Group Show"- New World Art Center, NYC
1994 Vulcan Studios, Oakland
1998 "Go!" Craft and Folk Art Museum, LA
2000 "California Drawing"- RBG, SM
2002 Recent Acquisitions Show - LACMA, LA
2002 "Urban Art" -ICU Gallery, LA
2003 DCA Gallery - Venice,CA
2006 Photography - Group Show- Cardiff, CA
2011 "Residence" - Track 16 Gallery - curated/produced C Hale
2016 "Anne and Mark's Art Party" -San Jose,CA