Christine Howard Sandoval
Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Art Praxis
Education:
MFA, Fine Art, Parsons The New School for Art + Design, NY
BFA, Fine Art, Pratt Institute, NY
Bio
Christine Howard Sandoval is a multidisciplinary artist who questions the boundaries of representation, access and habitation, where what is held in the land and what is held within state-sponsored archives negotiate shared spaces of meaning. She joined the ECU in 2019 from Parsons The New School for Art + Design in New York. where she was a part-time faculty and Post-Graduate Fellow in the Art, Media, and Technology program.
Her work has exhibited at The Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, Seoul Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver and Oregon Contemporary.
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Research Interests
If cartography through its translation of space into quantifiable measurements is a form of colonization, Christine seeks a language of place that refuses reduction through a multiplicity of perspectives. Smithson’s theory of entropy, a process of deterioration that is conditioned by irreversibility, has driven her art practice. Her work extends from her direct experiences in places that are entropic, and maps conflicting forces that contribute to their transformation.
Christine works across performance for video, sculpture, and drawing. In a series of videos she tracks her body's movement over land with wearable cameras similar to those used by surveillance systems and extreme sports. She films in environments visibly and invisibly marked by the pressures of development, colonization and climate change, such as a droughted waterway in New Mexico, a burn scar in Colorado and a blighted agricultural plot in the Central Valley of California.
Her studio curriculum and research interests are land-based pedagogies, architecture, de-colonial and anti-racist theory in art and culture, sculpture, drawing and performance.
