Artist: Christina Kerns
Exhibition Title:  Beyond Violet
Exhibition Dates: August 31 - October 5, 2023
Opening Reception and Gallery Talk:  August 31, 2023, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Artist Biography

Christina Kerns is a new media artist working in photography, animation, net art, and printed matter. She received her BFA in photography with a minor in art history from Pratt Institute and an MFA in interdisciplinary art from the University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign. Her work incorporates ideas of individuality, socially constructed value systems, and individual and cultural history. She is an Associate Professor at Lincoln University and lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, London, Berlin, Australia, and San Francisco.

Artist’s Statement

Beyond Violet employs lenticular technology (also known as moving pictures, wiggle pictures, or tilt cards) to echo the duplicity of real life or IRL and an online experience. The two frame ‘animated’ pieces transition as the viewer moves left and right; the viewer sees a clear image that is obscured and then becomes clear again. This transition evokes the idea of metamorphosis, realized only before or after and indiscernible during the action.

This series is heavily influenced by images created for social media and the compulsion to portray identity online. The images use photographic aesthetics and symbolism of reflection, ephemerality, concealment, and disguise to further the idea of translation and transition.