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Since I was very young, I have been fascinated with the concept of the Soul… the idea that the physical body represents only a small part of our beingness. I am always interested in trying to express the that we are more than just our bodies, and my ongoing spiritual interests and pursuits have run parallel to the narrative in my pieces.
I was born in New York City, and spent my youth in towns and cities until finally recognizing I needed to be immersed in nature. Presently I live in rural Pennsylvania with my three young children and husband, eight pets, plus a snake named Lucy. Nature is the main source of inspiration for my work, and helps me to maintain an awareness of the interconnectedness that exists among all of life.
cast glass, ceramic, figures are varying height, length- 31”
24” h x 24” w x 18” d, cast glass, ceramic
cast glass, ceramic, antique claw ball feet, 12” h
15” h x 30” l, cast glass, ceramic, hand painted detail
Christina Bothwell creates fantastic and strangely compelling figurative sculptures, which range from fascinating to disturbing. She studied painting under Will Barnett at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, but gradually moved to working three-dimensionally using ceramics and cast glass as well as antique toys, taxidermy animals or small furniture parts. Bothwell’s pieces are often a union between her own mythology and lucid dreams. They allow us to enter into a fertile subconscious and reveal a vulnerability we may recognize as our own.
Bothwell has won numerous scholarships and grants including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Virginia A. Groot Foundation award for excellence in sculpture. Her work is held in permanent public collections such as the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY; Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; Shanghai Museum of Glass Art, Shanghai, China; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA and the Alexander Tutsek – Stiftung foundation, Munich, Germany.
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