Bio

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia to a family from Denmark, Christina is a designer both by heritage and by training.

Earning a master’s degree in interior design from Pratt Institute, Christina has worked around the world as a creative director in the luxury fashion and lifestyle industry, culminating in a 20-year career with CHANEL. Through this experience, she honed a sensibility to the significance of place and the power of texture, materiality, concept, and movement to elevate how and why we connect with space.

Today, she translates these qualities into her artwork, bringing her value of curiosity and adaptability to life through active explorations with fiber, textile, and experimental biomaterials.

Christina has exhibited with Onna House and recently mounted a solo exhibition at Art Center Sarasota. Her work can be found in private collections throughout the United States.

Christina lives and maintains her studio in southwest Florida.

Artist Statement

I am an artist working at the intersection of art, design, and craft.

My creative evolution developed gradually over the course of a 30-year design practice. I was responsible for designing luxury spaces and, over time, became increasingly taken by the elegance and detail of the objects and artworks that went in them. The care of the hands that made these pieces became palpable, sometimes singlehandedly transforming the experience of the spaces they were in. It was in this way that a new calling presented itself and my new chapter in the arts began.

Central to my work is a fascination for nature’s capacity to create complex systems. I like to look for that precise point where natural beauty and the effects of human hands come into balance, working in harmony, echoing and enriching one other. I trace this instinct back to a childhood spent in the forests of the American South and the shores of rural Scandinavia that I consider my homes. My practice allows me both to witness nature and to revere it. It also reminds me to seek my place within it, respectfully and with humility.

Fiber and textile provide a consistent throughline to my work, which otherwise is varied and ever evolving. My process involves periods of active experimentation and incubation. I combine traditional techniques in unconventional ways. I explore both human-made and natural materials, sometimes making my own through carefully recorded trial and error. While 80% of my explorations never leave the studio, the collaboration with factors beyond my control provides its own reward.

My collected works express the ongoing conversation between my personal history and a constant search for discovery and renewal.