Christina McPhee
The Cartography of Memory: The Art of Christina McPhee
In the delicate intersection where geological permanence meets the ephemeral nature of human memory, the work of Christina McPhee resides. Born in Los Angeles in 1954, McPhee has spent her career constructing visual narratives that do more than merely depict a landscape; they inhabit it. Her practice is deeply rooted in the ancestral lands of the Chumash and Salinan peoples of Sout
hern California, a connection that imbues her work with a profound sense of site-specificity and spiritual resonance. To encounter a McPhee piece is to enter a space where the boundaries between the physical earth and the psychological landscape begin to dissolve, revealing a world composed of layered histories and biological assemblages.
McPhee’s artistic lineage is marked by a significant intellectual inheritance. Her journey throug…
