About the Artist:
Her work reconnects us with the physical elements of the stage and costume, creating a unique and captivating experience for the viewer. She is an artist who captures movement through the use of non-traditional painting materials such as wood stains and fabric dyes.
Kristy Kristinek's passion for art began at a young age and has evolved into a career focused on capturing the essence of movement through her unique painting style.
Her work has been featured in galleries around the US, and she continues to push the boundaries of what is possible with her chosen materials.
Get in touch to commission a piece or to learn more about her process and inspiration.
Her work is also available at Broadway Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery in Lubbock, TX
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Statement:
Through memory and documentation of movement captured by imbalanced parallels of the performer and the audience.
We can experience this memory through gesture and abstraction. The movement becomes captured through non-traditional painting materials such as wood stains and fabric dyes which reconnect us with the physical elements of the “stage” and “costume”.
The act of becoming transforms through the interactions of the physical nature of dance and the documentary aspects of an artist. The various levels of inclusion of the body become present through the illusion of peeling, staining, and bruising, layered through various materials that disappeared from the audience’s view when experiencing a ballet.
How do we document a “stage” through painting?
What is left behind?
Work:
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, South Plains College- Levelland TX
Fine Arts Gallery Director, South Plains College- Levelland TX
Education:
MFA-Painting, Texas Tech University- Lubbock, TX 2015
BFA- Studio Art, Texas Tech University- Lubbock, TX 2012
Publications:
Synkroniciti, Vol. 2, No. 4 "Hidden"
2020
https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/
American Artwork
Edition 14 & 15 2017 & 2019
Studio Visit Magazine
Vol. 34 2016
Solo Exhibitions:
2023. Imbalanced Parallels, Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX
2020. Choreographic Sequences, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX
2019 physical articulation, Lubbock Christian University, Lubbock, TX
2018 sequential gestures, Christine Dewitt Art Gallery SPC, Levelland, TX
2017 restraint, Clamplight Gallery & Studio, San Antonio, TX
2016 concealed/fragmented/redefined, Garden & Arts Center, Lubbock, TX
2015 ballerina: standard of beauty, Texas Tech University’s School of Art Satellite Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2015 the mark, Peachtree Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2015 the choreography of painting, CASP 5 & J Gallery, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Lubbock, TX
Performances:
2022 hours, artist in residence, Ole' Miss University / collaborative performance with composer Cecil Price Walden & Vocal Professor Alice Anne Light, Nutt Auditorium
2022 hours, a collaborative performance with composer Cecil Price Walden & Vocal Professor Alice Anne Light, Hemmle Recital Hall, Texas Tech University
2012 DECA Dance, Firehouse Theatre LHUCA, Lubbock TX Flatlands Dance Theatre Collaboration
2018 “The Happening” SPC Theatre/Live Painting Collaborative Performance, SPC Theatre
Group Exhibitions:
2022 There's no "I" in Cactus, Texas Tech University Museum, Lubbock TX
2022 CCAN Juried Exhibition
Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene TX
2021: Motherly: an intersection of motherhood and the creative practice, Texas Tech University School of Art Satelite Gallery, Lubbock TX
2021 All Abstract, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
2021 Women in Art, Reflections: Nuu Muse Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2020 CCAN Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, Texas
2020 Abstract Only! 10th Anniversary Exhibition at Wailoa Center in Hilo, Hawaii
Collaborative Performance, Lubbock, TX
2019 CLIP: An International Exhibition of Works on Paper, 5 & J Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2019 Artspace111: 6thAnnual Regional Juried Exhibition, Artspace Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019 Collectors Choice 2019, Studio Channel Islands Gallery, Camarillo, CA
2018 Texas & Neighbors, Irving Art Center, Dallas TX
2018 resonate & render, LHUCA Gallery Firehouse Theatre, Lubbock, TX
2017 document, Lubbock Christian University, Lubbock, TX
2016 passage, Texas Tech School of Art Satellite Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2016 lines & light“an evening of performance & visual arts”, LHUCA Gallery Firehouse Theatre, Lubbock, TX
2015 your move: dance photography, Art House Productions Gallery, New Jersey, NJ
2015 abstracts, ArtSpace Gallery, Round Rock, TX
2015 ink this: curation of prints, Texas Tech University South Gallery, Lubbock, TX