About
Christine Frisbee is a contemporary artist whose body of work combines the esoteric world of New York Abstract Expressionism and the color studies of The Cape Cod School of art. Her work is influenced by Charles Hawthorne, Helen Frankenthaler and Willem de Kooning. Frisbee combines her love of color and shapes while painting in the traditional style as well as more abstract studies. She loves the texture of painting with oils because it allows for her work to be ethereal. Light and strong colors emerge in both representational and abstract renderings of landscapes and architectural scenes. Spending days near the ocean on Cape Cod, many of her paintings are influenced by the sea and land. Her travels around the world prompt lines and shapes from cities and villages for abstracts.
Christine started painting at the age of 14. She was from a family of 12 children and art became of significant importance in her life to allowing her to have a special environment to create. As an adult, Christine studied at the Art Students League and National Academy Museum in New York, The Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, Connecticut and workshops with Joseph McGurl, Jonathan McPhillips and Dimitri Wright.
“My art keeps me centered. I enjoy painting and sharing my art. My best work comes when I hear what I should paint. How we live our lives is of upmost importance to me. I attempt to relate this in my paintings with color and harmony. The large strokes are the influences that create our thoughts and reactions. The total brush strokes on the canvas reflect our character and total being. The colors and shapes are who we are. It is a canvas of our personality.”
Affiliations
National Association of Women Artists, (New York, NY and MA), Katonah Museum Artists Association (KMAA), Provincetown Art Museum, (PAAM), Art Foundation of Cape Cod, Art Bags for Kids, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Art Student League, Silvermine Art.