About
Bio
Christina Cornier makes narrative paintings that center around her family and her experience in motherhood. She comes from a family of creatives and decided at a young age that she wanted to be an artist. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught in their continuing studies program after graduation. She has exhibited her work internationally in spaces including Warnes Contemporary in New York, The Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago, Kinhouse Gallery in Fort Wayne IN, Art Medellin in Colombia and Susan Mains Gallery in Grenada. She currently works out of her studio at the Greenleaf Art Center in Chicago and lives with her husband and two daughters in Evanston Illinois.
Statement
I make large scale narrative oil paintings about caregiving, identity and generational legacy. I am interested in the ways in which familial roles shape our understanding of who we are and how these roles are performed, internalized, and sometimes resisted.
My process begins with composing collages from both new and old photographs of my family and everyday experiences to use as source material for my paintings. In them the domestic space becomes a stage in which to explore the emotional labor of parenting. Drawing inspiration from my own experiences as a mother, as well as from childhood memories and personal artifacts, my paintings function as both intimate documentation and broader social commentary.