aBOUT THE ARTIST
Christine Richman is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture, and design. Working primarily in oil, acrylic, charcoal, and plaster, she investigates the relationship between the female body and the natural world through organic abstraction, layered materiality, and the tension of light and shadow. Her work is a process of looking deeply—dissecting visual and emotional truths, and exploring what it means to truly see.
Richman holds a BFA in Painting from Indiana University (2001) and studied classical technique in the university’s Florence Painting Program. Before returning to her studio full-time, she spent over 15 years as an art and creative director, an experience that informs her visual storytelling and formal clarity.
Her work has been exhibited nationally, with recent and upcoming shows at UNREPD (Los Angeles), Laughlin Gallery (Highland Park, IL), and Evanston Art Center (Evanston, IL)
Her work has appeared in Sheridan Road Magazine, DuJour, and is held in private and institutional collections, including Indiana University.
Richman lives and works in Wilmette, IL, where motherhood and studio practice intertwine—shaping the emotional undercurrents of her work.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
2025
My work investigates the hidden threads that bind the natural world—those quiet, strange connections between form, body, and landscape. Through organic abstraction and tactile experimentation in oil, acrylic, charcoal, and plaster, I translate biomorphic shapes, fractal patterns, and fleeting light into spaces that feel at once grounded and slightly enchanted.
I’m drawn to nature’s unruly poetics—its elegant chaos, wild logic, and moments of magic that seem to wink at you when you're paying attention. Light and shadow serve not only as compositional tools but as metaphors for perception, transformation, and the thresholds we move through—seen and unseen.
The recurring presence of the female body in my work mirrors the natural world: generative, resilient, mysterious, and often misread. I use layered materiality and symbolic gestures to explore this entanglement, seeking a visual language that is intuitive, cyclical, and a little bit feral. Each piece invites the viewer to linger, to feel, and to wonder—what does it really mean to see?