In an era of constant motion and high anxiety, Christine Rasmussen’s quiet and increasingly spacious oil paintings offer a pause. In this respite, Rasmussen contemplates absence, presence, stillness, uncertainty and the sublime in the ordinary. She has stripped away the visual noise and presented abstractions of concrete and steel that hover on the edge of representation. The desert skies become colorfields and the freeways become pure geometry.
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b. 1987 - Karachi, Pakistan
Works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2009 Bachelor of Arts, Art Practice (with honors) and Peace & Conflict Studies
University of California, Berkeley, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Beautiful Solitude, Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Liminal Transcendence, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 And..., Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Fenomenal, LAUNCH LA, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Flawless, Los Gatos Beauty Bar, Los Gatos, CA
2012 Before the Leap, UP Collective, Austin, TX
2005 IB Art Senior Exhibition, Hilton Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam
SELECTED TWO-PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Cityscape Show XIV: L.A.ndscape, Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Seattle Art Fair, Booth C04 with Billis Williams Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024 San Francisco Art Fair, Booth F05 with Billis Williams Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2024 A Woman’s Place, The Ebell of LA, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Architecture, Interiors, and Urban Landscapes, Not Real Art, online exhibit
2023 The Cityscape Show XIII: Close to Home, Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Seattle Art Fair, Booth C04 with Billis Williams Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 Art Market SF, Booth E05 with Billis Williams Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2023 Venice Family Clinic Art Walk & Auction, Playa Vista, CA
2022 The Cityscape Show XII: Iconic, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Seattle Art Fair George Billis Gallery LA, Seattle, WA
2022 Art Market SF, Booth E07, George Billis Gallery LA, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2022 Venice Family Clinic Art Walk & Auction, Santa Monica, CA
2022 California Love, Cactus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 The Cityscape Show XI, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Venice Family Clinic Art Walk & Auction, Santa Monica, CA
2020 The Cityscape Show X: Concrete and Earth, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Representational Abstract 3, BG Gallery online exhibit on ARTSY
2020 In Real Life, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 The Nothing That Is, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA
2019 The Ladies Room, presented by Jen Tough Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Agglomeration, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Wishlist 6, Gabba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Los Angeles Invitational, Art Essex at George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Architectural Memory, Vedder Price & Associates with Patter Hellstrom Visual Art, Century City, CA
2018 Memories on Location, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Meet the Artists, The Pacific Art Foundation with SCAPE Jeannie Denholm & Associates Art Advisory, Newport Beach, CA
2017 5th Annual Coaster Show, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Startup Art Fair, Hotel del Sol, San Francisco, CA
2017 LA Interiors & Exteriors, Pilates & Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Spacial Recognition, Finishing Concepts, Los Angeles, CA
2016 She Was Just a Dream, Washington Reid Gallery, Culver City, CA
2016 4th Annual Coaster Show, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Los Angeles Art Association’s 2015 Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2015 7th Annual 50|50 Show, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
2015 Showcases, City Art Cooperative Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Building Home, Phoenix Trades Depot, Austin, TX
2012 East of SX Showcase, UP Collective, Austin, TX
2009 Senior Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA
SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2024 Canvas Rebel, Stories and Insights: Meet Christine Rasmussen, online interview
2023 American Art Collector, Issue 208, February
2022 Art & Cake, Christine Rasmussen: Liminal Transcendence at George Billis Gallery, exhibition review by Kristine Schomaker
2022 Exhibition catalog, “The Power of Place: Christine Rasmussen’s Urban Landscapes”, essay by Nancy Kay Turner
2022 American Art Collector, Opportunity and Grit, July Issue 201
2022 Voyage LA, Check Out Christine Rasmussen’s Story, online interview
2021 Exhibition catalog, “The Yin and Yang of Christine Rasmussen’s Recent Paintings”, essay by David S. Rubin
2021 Exhibition catalog, “Coaxing Unexpected Beauty from Industrial Architecture”, essay by Tressa Williams
2021 Not Real Art, Christine Rasmussen on Making Work at the Intersection of Belonging and Isolation, online interview 2021
2021 Among Worlds magazine, cover art, December issue
2020 ShoutOut LA, Local Stories: Christine Rasmussen, online interview
2019 Art & Cake, A Lot of Nothing Adds Up, exhibition review by Lorraine Heitzman
2019 Artillery online, Brand Library and Art Center: The Nothing That Is, exhibition review by Genie Davis
2018 Voyage LA, Check out Christine Rasmussen’s Artwork, online interview
2018 Singulart, The US painter Christine Rasmussen about femininity and boundaries, online interview
2018 Art & Cake, Dreamlike Works by Holly Elander & Christine Rasmussen, exhibition review by Genie Davis
2018 Exhibition catalog, “Phenomenal Femininity: The Art of Christine Rasmussen”, essay by Betty Ann Brown
2017 Apéro International Fine Art Catalogue, Curator Review: Beyond, November issue
2017 Modern Art Blitz, “Featured Artist Christine Rasmussen”, Episode #63
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, SPECIAL PROJECTS
2024-23 Advisory Board Member, The Verdancy Project, Troutdale, OR
2022 Featured Artist, The Inspirational Artist Series, Art2Life Academy
2021 Grantee and Featured Artist, Culver City Arts Foundation & Helms Bakery Projecting Possibilities Grant
2021 Grantee, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Emergency Relief (AER) Fund
2020 Juror, Exhibitions Selection Committee, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2019 Guest Curator, Brand Art Center, “The Nothing That Is”, Glendale, CA
2017 Featured Artist, Imagery Estate Winery Artist Label Program, Glen Ellen, CA
2017 Resident, Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA