Christine Holton

Virtual Art Exhibition, A Crisis of Caring: Christine Holton, “The Corpus Chromatic Series”

Christine Holton, “Unhurt”

“The Corpus Chromatic series is a body of portraits meant to celebrate and venerate living human systems for their physical beauty, unique functions, characteristics, ancient designs, and meaning. Anatomical subjects are abstracted with bright colors to bring attention to them and to add fantasy, drawing attention to the beauty and function of the living object itself. The fragility of the human body with all its intricate systems and delicate parts is sometimes feeble, fracturable and weak. Likewise, the resiliency of the body is compelling with its ability to recover from illness and injury. The depiction of human anatomy in my artwork comes from an awareness of radical aliveness, a sense that we can participate in healing our bodies and shift negative trajectories under any conditions.” –Christine Holton