My name is Christa, and I am a visual artist living and working in Irvington, NJ. I create art objects that honor Black, Queer spirituality, liberation, and autonomy in the physical and metaphysical planes. Through a creative practice of painting, wheel-thrown pottery, and nail polish-making, I embrace play and material exploration as a medicine to living under oppression. I sell my artwork through my online studio shop, Glitter Sis Studio.
In my pottery practice, I’m interested in how ritual and aesthetic design decisions can trigger Black cultural and ancestral memory. While designing and creating my pottery, I do things such as adding herbal mixes to my Raku fires, praying over my throwing water when on the wheel, and adding beauty supply materials and shells to my finished pots. My pottery practice is a spiritual practice.
In my painting practice, the introspective potential of darkness and the sensuality of paint and mixed media offer me a visual language where I can explore the political, embodied, and spiritual aspects of my Black, Queer experience. I pull inspiration from Afrofuturism, diasporic religious traditions, and Black cultural materials to create paintings that are simultaneously flattened and expansive, seductive and challenging, celebratory and forlorn. My painting practice is a meeting space for me and my ancestors to explore these contradictions while enjoying our freedom together through my experience.
Adorning oneself with nail polish offers a ritual of rest, stillness, beauty, and reflection. Through polish-mixing and designing nail polish collections, I offer this nail painting ritual while exercising my background in paint formulation and pigments. My polishes and collections have names and color stories inspired by themes that evoke power, self-love, and joy from a liberatory perspective.
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