Christy Powers

CHRISTY POWERS holds a BA in Painting and Cultural Studies from Sarah Lawrence College, and an MA in Painting with distinction from the University of New South Wales (Australia). She has been awarded residencies in France and Australia, and at the Bronx Museum. Her work has appeared in galleries, museums, and art fairs in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Australia, Denmark, England, and France. She lives and works in New York City.

Christy works with ink, gouache, and watercolors, and her main subject matter includes girls, social media, and youth culture.

The out-of-focus quality of her artworks metaphorically signifies the effects of fading memories.

 In Christy’s words:
I have always been interested in the role that photography plays in how we construct our memories and how that is changing with social media. There has always been an element of fiction in our memories. But with the contemporary need to create an online identity, how is that construction going to affect the way we remember things? These online images are so ephemeral and impermanent, and I enjoy capturing that in my paintings. By painting these images, I’m able to capture that ‘just-out-of-reach’ feeling of memories, where some details remain sharp, yet others blur and disappear.