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My work is all about process: Whether it is the action of slowly adding thin layers of melted wax to wood panels, manipulating clay made of earth, or hand building armature forms on which to paint. I love the physicality of the process and my pieces are not as much “painted” as they are BUILT. Abstract painting of landscapes and flora emerge naturally by building up layers of marks and melted wax, fusing them together with fire, scraping away and repeating. Recent ventures into ceramics have informed my encaustic painting into new dimensional expressions of form and movement. Creating this new dialogue between painting, sculpting and ceramics is giving voice to my artistic expression, melting boundaries along the way.

-Christy Branson, Artist

Exhibitions:

• Gallery Mack: Earth, Wax & Fire Solo Exhibition. Seattle, WA 2024

• Jundt Art Museum Gonzaga University: Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Group Art Exhibition, 2024

• UnEarthed: Spokane, WA: Solo Exhibition 2024

• Facets: Spokane, WA: Solo Exhibition 2022

• AAF London, UK: Selected Works, Group Show 2021

• Kaleidoscope: Spokane, WA: Solo Exhibition 2021

• Grey Cube Gallery: Landscapes Online Group Exhibition, 2020

• Las Laguna Gallery: Laguna Beach, CA: Group Botanical Exhibition 2020

• Quarantined: Encaustic Art at a Social Distance: Online Sold-Out Solo Exhibition 2020 (Pivot from Cancelled Show)

• Evolutions in Fire & Wax: Spokane, WA : Solo Exhibition 2019

• MAC- Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture: Curated Artist Studio Tour 2018

• The Other Art Fair, Chicago: Curated Exhibition September 2018

• Marmot Art Space & Gallery: Spokane, WA: Featured Artist Sept 2018

• Jundt Art Museum Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA.: Inland Northwest Juried Landscape Art   Exhibition, 2018

• Spokane Arts Benefit Show, Spokane, WA: Group Exhibition, Maryhill Winery 2018

• Scratching the Surface: Spokane, WA: Solo Exhibition 2017

• Blackwell Gallery: Coeur D’Alene, ID: Selected Works 2017

• Nemacolin Woodlands Resort Fine Art Gallery: Farmington, PN: Selected Works 2017

• The Other Art Fair- Brooklyn, New York:  Curated Show 2017

• Encaustic Art Institute- Santa Fe, NM: Selected work for EAI’s permanent collection 2016

• Making Your Mark, Santa Fe, NM: Int’l Encaustic Artists & Encaustic Art Institute, Juried Exhibition 2016

• What Lies Beneath: Barrister Winery, Spokane: Solo Exhibition 2016