Noon for a Midnight Snack, 2018
Noon for a Midnight Snack, 2018
Dawn of Ethan for Nicky, a performance collaboration.
The two tables are in the same room, and the mirrors aren’t perfect, but I wanted to see “Harrison Ford” the performer go on a date with himself.
I was thinking about the officiallity of this kind of story telling, how it relates to the moving image, moving readability, and a craning stage.
The very important fly was alive in the bathroom of the house I stayed at in Atholl, Scotland and when I found it dead on the tiling I put it inside a cigarette box to take home.
Dawn of Ethan for Nicky, a performance collaboration.
The two tables are in the same room, and the mirrors aren’t perfect, but I wanted to see “Harrison Ford” the performer go on a date with himself.
I was thinking about the officiallity of this kind of story telling, how it relates to the moving image, moving readability, and a craning stage.
The very important fly was alive in the bathroom of the house I stayed at in Atholl, Scotland and when I found it dead on the tiling I put it inside a cigarette box to take home.
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Bio
Christine McDonald is a Sensitive Open Format Artist, based in Brooklyn, NY. She researches historical and present day social contracts and engages environmentally and virtually delicate methods of sculpture, paint, and image-making in her work. She holds an MFA from Cornell University in Studio Art, and a BFA in Sculpture, minor Art History from Tyler School of Art & Architecture. She is the 2021 recipient of the John Hartell Award for Art, and the 2018 recipient of the Lester and Violet Hecht Memorial Award.
The Boneyarders are a multimedia ensemble based in Baltimore, MD, Boston, MA, and Brooklyn, NY. They take their name from the colloquial term “boneyard” used to describe scrap yards and grounded aerospace mothball fleets around the United States. Consisting of three artists, two with extensive professional backgrounds in improvised music and performance and one professional fine art maker, The Boneyarders embrace an experimental artistic instrumentation. Compositions and projects range from film, film-scores, and avant-garde music making that is determined and translated from both organic and man-made environments. [Their work has been exhibited at Automat Gallery [Philadelphia, PA], Museum of Science [Boston, MA], MG Space [Beijing, China], Olive Tjaden Gallery [Cornell University; Ithaca, NY] and Taubman Museum of Art [Roanoke, VA].]
Members: Denver Nuckolls, Zachary McDonald, Christine McDonald
Contact
crusteeny (at) gmail (dot) com

Education
2020 - 2022
Master of Fine Art, Cornell University
2014 - 2018
Received BFA, magna cum laude, in sculpture with art history minor from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Awards
John Hartell Award for Art (2022) : Cornell Council for the Arts Grant (2020) : The Lester and Violet Hecht Memorial Award (2018)
Exhibitions
Solo
2023
Centennial Rust, Automat Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2022
Boneyard Concert, Olive Tjaden Gallery (M.F.A. Thesis)
Ithaca, New York
2021
Steel Wool Overcoat, Olive Tjaden Hall Experimental Gallery
Ithaca, New York
2021
Passenger, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Ithaca, New York
2018
Noon for a Midnight Snack, The Legume Room
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018
Light is a Special Circumstance, Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Group
2022
A Long Toast, Ortega y Gasset Gallery
Brooklyn, New York
2022
KILL WRAYMOUR, Wraymour & Flanigan
Brooklyn, New York
2021
“Badminton Tournament” Bridget Donahue Gallery
New York, New York
2021
“5G,” Shops at Ithaca Mall
Ithaca, New York
2020
Maximum Occupancy, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Ithaca, New York
2019
Crafting Narratives, City Hall Art Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2019
TEST STRAW; Saved: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas, STRAW Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2019
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Modern Plastics, Metropolitan Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018-19
Etherial / Material, City Hall Art Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018
Philadelphia Sculptors Present, City Hall Gallery 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018
5 Into 1, 19th Annual Exhibition, Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018
ROS: Heads., Pilot Projects
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018
Game Trail, The Legume Room
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018
Nowadays Anyone, Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018
Muscle Memory, Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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