Christie Stockstill
Austin, TX, United States
Inspired by literature and film—writers like Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver and writer/directo...
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Christie Stockstill
Joined In 2014
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About the artist
Christie Stockstill
Joined In 2014
(190 Followers)
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Inspired by literature and film—writers like Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver and writer/directors like David Lynch and The Coen Brothers—I make moody and mysterious, sometimes quirky or irreverent works including, photographs, timed pieces, objects, and texts in order to delight, surprise, agitate and connect. These are the tools with which I examine different aspects of life: love, injustice, despair, redemption…
To communicate through these tools requires a reckoning with, not only the problematic qualities of the medium of photography and how an increasingly image-based society consumes and processes nearly constant visual messaging, but also the constraints and challenges of modern communication, and, beyond that, the problems and power of language itself.
Like many, I crave a more compassionate and honest world, but I reject a didactic approach to achieving it. It is more natural for me to think like the writer, to embrace fiction as a vehicle for exploring certain universal experiences and the multifaceted nature of reality; and like the director, to find an impactful way to connect with an audience.
Technology—including my iPhone, digital camera, and post-production software—plays a role in my work, but a more physi...
MFA - Visual Arts - Lesley University College of Art and Design, 01/24
St. Mary’s University; San Antonio, TX – BA Classic American Literature and BA Philosophy,1997
2024 Red Dot Group Exhibition, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2024 Thesis Exhibition, Lunder Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2023 Red Dot Group Exhibition, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2022 Photo "Saint Scarlett" selected by Rich McCabe for juried portrait exhibition
2021 Photo, "Whispers" Juried Show - PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont
2020 The Architecture of Women Once, Over Coffee Bar, solo, Austin, TX
2020 Group Show - Art For The People
2016 Women and Children River Rose New Braunfels, Texas Solo Exhibition
2014 PhotoFest Digital Exhibit Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014 BeHuman Gallery, Houston, Texas Group Exhibit
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