Christine O Sobczak
STATEMENT
I have always viewed my photography degree as open to any interpretation that I can conceive of it. My image making became more about internal and subconscious concepts. I create digital photomontages and then print the images on archival paper or metal. They are my human wundrian/wondering about the stars, the Earth and our universe. They are how I concept the mystery of our existence.
CURRICULUM VITAE
“I saw the Angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free”, Michelangelo. In a greater sense, that beautiful sentiment by Michelangelo, is felt by many artists. My artwork consists of digital photomontages. Sometimes my images do resemble, in my mind’s eye, those Biblical entities. It can sometimes take five hundred digital images before I am delighted to finally find one that is acceptable to me. I do feel that I have set an Angel free.
In 1994, I received my BFA degree in Fine Arts/Photography. My career life’s path began as a Registered Nurse. I could not have imagined, at that time, that I would ever enter a University Arts Program. For the first twenty years as a fine art photographer, I worked in the darkroom and hand colored my silver prints. In 2013, as photography was entering the digital era and film printing was becoming more difficult to accomplish, I began working in the digital field. My tools are now a smartphone (as camera), applications and an iPad for editing.
The world that we can see and the world that we can’t see would describe my images. The stars are my grounding. That almost sounds silly because of their infinite dimensions. However, we understand so little about them.....I know there is something deeper than ourselves. That magic of the unknown is what I try to reveal in my images.
In 1994, I received my BFA degree in Fine Arts/Photography. My career life’s path began as a Registered Nurse. I could not have imagined, at that time, that I would ever enter a University Arts Program. For the first twenty years as a fine art photographer, I worked in the darkroom and hand colored my silver prints. In 2013, as photography was entering the digital era and film printing was becoming more difficult to accomplish, I began working in the digital field. My tools are now a smartphone (as camera), applications and an iPad for editing.
The world that we can see and the world that we can’t see would describe my images. The stars are my grounding. That almost sounds silly because of their infinite dimensions. However, we understand so little about them.....I know there is something deeper than ourselves. That magic of the unknown is what I try to reveal in my images.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2021 - The Photo Review Winners Gallery, The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Image, Fireworks
2021 - Art Concept Alternative, The Raw Space Gallery, Stories And Reflections
2021 - The FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, Melancholia, Image, In Excelsis 2020 - The Photo Review winners award from Blue Flowers, title : Fireworks
2020 - 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition. Gallery. Fotonostrum. Barcelona. Spain. (Image in Excelsis).
2020 - Featured in article, Mobile Photography And Spirituality, Issue No. 3 EN FotoNostrum Magazine, Barcelona, Spain
2019 - Transformations. Video-Projection. The Pennsylvania Center For Photography. Doylestown. Pennsylvania. In Excelsis.
2019 - Participant in FIG Bilbao. Spain International Print Art Works on Paper Festival. Represented by Art Concept Alternative. Vero Beach. Florida.
2019 - The 14thJulia Cameron Awards: Non-Professional Section. Category Digital Manipulation & Collage. Honorable Mention. Series: in Excelsis.
2019 – Des Arts et Des Mobiles. Video Projection. What Was She Really Thinking. Paris. France.
2019 – 13thPollux Award. Non-professional Section. Winner Series. Alternative Processes Category. The Wind North. The Wind South. The Wind Neptune.
2019 – The Beauty Myth. Hair Out of Place And So Was She. The Whitelight Gallery. Milan. Italy
2018 – The 11thJulia Margaret Cameron Awards. Runner Up Category. Alternative Processes. Digital Manipulation and Collage. Honorable Mention. Category Fine Art.
2018 – Mobile Art From All Over The World. Cagliari. Sardinia. Italy. Untitled Image.
2017 – Dairy Art Center. Boulder Colorado. Impossible Humans International. Collection: “Yes This Is Me”
2017 – TheAppWhisperer.com: Flickr Group Showcases: A Day in The Life Of. Christine O. Sobczak.
Mobilephotoawards.com (annual contest). Honorable Mentions:
2018 – Visual Fix: What Was She Really Thinking
2017 – The Blues Table. Imprint. Magnetic Flux
2016 – Still Life. “Juice”. Visual FX. “She Is A Warrior”. Pink Pop.
2015 – Visual FX. “Vestal Virgin”
2014 – Digital Fine Art. “Cosmic Water Gold Tether”
New Era Museum (online digital museum):
2015 – FIPA Award (Florence International Photography Award). “Between Heaven And Earth”
2021 - Art Concept Alternative, The Raw Space Gallery, Stories And Reflections
2021 - The FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, Melancholia, Image, In Excelsis 2020 - The Photo Review winners award from Blue Flowers, title : Fireworks
2020 - 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition. Gallery. Fotonostrum. Barcelona. Spain. (Image in Excelsis).
2020 - Featured in article, Mobile Photography And Spirituality, Issue No. 3 EN FotoNostrum Magazine, Barcelona, Spain
2019 - Transformations. Video-Projection. The Pennsylvania Center For Photography. Doylestown. Pennsylvania. In Excelsis.
2019 - Participant in FIG Bilbao. Spain International Print Art Works on Paper Festival. Represented by Art Concept Alternative. Vero Beach. Florida.
2019 - The 14thJulia Cameron Awards: Non-Professional Section. Category Digital Manipulation & Collage. Honorable Mention. Series: in Excelsis.
2019 – Des Arts et Des Mobiles. Video Projection. What Was She Really Thinking. Paris. France.
2019 – 13thPollux Award. Non-professional Section. Winner Series. Alternative Processes Category. The Wind North. The Wind South. The Wind Neptune.
2019 – The Beauty Myth. Hair Out of Place And So Was She. The Whitelight Gallery. Milan. Italy
2018 – The 11thJulia Margaret Cameron Awards. Runner Up Category. Alternative Processes. Digital Manipulation and Collage. Honorable Mention. Category Fine Art.
2018 – Mobile Art From All Over The World. Cagliari. Sardinia. Italy. Untitled Image.
2017 – Dairy Art Center. Boulder Colorado. Impossible Humans International. Collection: “Yes This Is Me”
2017 – TheAppWhisperer.com: Flickr Group Showcases: A Day in The Life Of. Christine O. Sobczak.
Mobilephotoawards.com (annual contest). Honorable Mentions:
2018 – Visual Fix: What Was She Really Thinking
2017 – The Blues Table. Imprint. Magnetic Flux
2016 – Still Life. “Juice”. Visual FX. “She Is A Warrior”. Pink Pop.
2015 – Visual FX. “Vestal Virgin”
2014 – Digital Fine Art. “Cosmic Water Gold Tether”
New Era Museum (online digital museum):
2015 – FIPA Award (Florence International Photography Award). “Between Heaven And Earth”
View Christine’s Feature in FotoNostrum magazine issue 3 EN
Christine's feature in FotoNostrum magazine Pg.104-115
Christine's feature in FotoNostrum magazine Pg.104-115