Artist Statement

Vicky Christou's paintings characterize a merging together of formal abstraction with crafted textile properties. This intermixing of historically opposed traditions is encoded with Christou’s personal history and her intuitive painterliness. She symbolically references her ancestry and their utilitarian handiwork practices such as weaving and crochet into the fine art concepts of abstract painting. In her works, what was once considered oppositional processes become a simultaneously infused object, offering the viewer different considerations of perceived beauty.