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 work, the introspective potential of darkness and the erotic materiality of paint and mixed media offer me a visual language that is very psychologically evocative. I pull inspiration from the cosmos, organic textures, geometric forms, and Black cultural materials to create paintings that are simultaneously flattened and expansive, seductive and off-putting, celebratory and forlorn, and exploring the confusion of being both limited and limitless - as a descendant of enslaved people.
Adorning oneself with nail polish offers a ritual of rest, stillness, beauty, and reflection. Through designing nail polish collections, I offer this nail painting ritual, while getting to work with a range of shimmers, pigments, and glitters. My polishes and collections have names and color stories inspired by themes that evoke power, self-love, and joy.
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