Christina Bothwell “Luminous Dreams in Cataclysmic Times”

Heller Gallery

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The exhibition features more than a dozen pieces, made over the course of the last year, as the artist has been processing the societal upheaval of 2020. Bothwell explicitly titled the exhibition Luminous Dreams in Cataclysmic Times.

Bothwell’s pieces are spiritual and emotional confessions, which meld her somnambulistic visions, her extraordinary empathy and her observations of a world in chaos into material objects, which most often take the form of fantastic beings and strange creatures. Working with cast glass and raku fired clay, and sometimes embellishing with oil-painted flourishes, she wrings a gentle magic from these old and honored processes.

Christina Bothwell’s work is held in public collections including the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY; Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; the Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China; the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, and the Alexander Tutsek - Stiftung foundation, Munich, Germany.