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For the past twenty years she has made her home in Newfoundland, an island in the North Atlantic off Canada's rugged east coast. There, she divides her time between St. John’s, the province’s capital city, and Woody Point, an enclave community in Gros Morne National Park. She has also travelled and worked in other remote and beautiful environments, as Visiting Artist with a number of scientific research teams. Her work comes out of those experiences, and offers her interpretation of, particularly, the dramatic geology and geomorphology of some of Canada’s most iconic wild places. These have included: Gros Morne National Park, northern Labrador, Baffin Island, the Yukon, and the Rocky Mountains. Christine Koch has exhibited across the country in many solo and group exhibitions, and her paintings and original prints are in major Canadian public and corporate collections, and in private collections worldwide. In addition to her studio and exhibition work, her career has involved scholarship, art administration, curating, jurying, critical writing, and teaching. Her studio-gallery in Woody Point (Tablelands Studio) is open to the public in the summer months. In the winter, Christine works in her downtown St. John’s studio, which is open to visitors by appointment and on designated "Open Studio" days.
All artwork, graphics, photography, text and digital reproductions on this web site is copyright © 2000 - 2011 Christine Koch. All rights reserved. No reproduction is permitted of any part of this website without written consent from the artist. Web site graphics and design: Christine Koch. Last updated Febraury 2011 |
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N E W S
Spring 2011
Click above to see flyer.
Toronto, March 2011 Christine will be showing her work in Toronto from March 3 – 6, 2011. The Artist Project Toronto is a fair produced by the same company that produces the Toronto International Art Fair and the One-of-a-Kind shows. It will be held in the Queen Elizabeth Building, Canadian National Exhibition Place. Mark your calendars!
New prints – hot off the press!
Two new varied-edition linocuts of Bylot Island, (North Baffin Island):
Across the Sound II (Bylot Island), 6” x 12” (image size), 2010. Click above to see large view.
Each is printed in white ink on prepared (painted) paper. View samples of the prints here.
New Solo Exhibition:
BLACK AND WHITE: Twenty Years of Linocut Prints
October 16 – November 21, 2010, at Devon House Gallery.
“The black and white linocuts of Christine Koch are immediately recognizable for their uncompromising graphic directness and complete resolution of formal elements. This exhibition traces the evolution of Koch's linocut imagery from simple but intimate line drawings to complex compositions with rich textures, patterns and mark making. It is an evolution that has taken the artist from her domestic space to the mountains of Gros Morne and the remote wilderness of the Arctic. BLACK & WHITE is a comprehensive survey that reflects all of the major periods of Koch's career to date, and provides insight into her painting and relief work as well.” Gloria Hickey, for the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador
Opening Saturday, Oct. 16, from 2 – 4 p.m. All are welcome.
Christine will discuss her work on Thursday, Oct. 21, at 2:30 p.m. at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St. John’s, in a talk titled “The Accidental Printmaker”. All are welcome.
Oct. 11, 2010 is the last day to view Nocturne at the Parks Canada Discovery Centre in Woody Point. The paintings can now be viewed on this website, both in installation and as individual images.