Christine Mottau

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CHRISTINE MOTTAU: Escape to Within
November 2-27, 2021

Ceres Gallery is pleased to announce Christine Mottau’s Escape to Within, an exhibition of recent paintings. The exhibition marks Mottau’s ninth solo exhibition with the gallery. 

Escape to Within presents Christine Mottau’s new body of abstract oil paintings, made in 2020 and 2021 based on chakra meditation theory. Mottau’s abstractions are a highly personal exploration of the imagery she envisioned while practicing meditation. The paintings record a visual expression of the transportive experience.With a distinctive interest in color and light Mottau captures swirling psychic energy with luminous reds, shimmering purples and searing greens. Using a unique glazing technique, she layers translucent colors to construct an immersive sense of form and depth. With little discernible brushwork, each abstraction appears ephemeral, evocative of transitory images coming into consciousness.

Despite its emphasis on inner worlds, In-Sight-Out exemplifies Mottau’s distinctive interest in color and light by capturing swirling psychic energy with luminous reds, shimmering purples and searing greens. Using a unique glazing technique, Mottau layers translucent colors to construct an immersive sense of form and depth. With little discernible brushwork, each abstraction appears ephemeral, evocative of transitory images coming into consciousness.

Throughout her work, Mottau has focused on truth and beauty with a practice that reflects introspection and a reverence for an inner world. Mottau’s paintings create a necessary space of tranquility and gesture toward individual and collective transcendence.

Christine Mottau has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions in American galleries since the 1980s. Living and working In New York City and Spencertown, NY, she was educated at the Art Institute of Boston and the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work is represented by Ceres Gallery, where she has shown her paintings, drawings and paper sculptures in both solo and group shows.

Education:

Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2019Launch F18, Peterborough, NH
2018 Ceres Gallery, NYC
2017Lazy Susan Gallery, NYC
Ceres Gallery, NYC
2016Ceres Gallery, NYC
2014Ceres Gallery, NYC
2013Ceres Gallery, NYC
2012Ceres Gallery, NYC
2011Ceres Gallery, NYC
2009Long Beach Art Museum, Long Beach, NJ
2008Ceres Gallery, NYC
2006Ceres Gallery, NYC
2004Ceres Gallery, NYC
2000Sax Gallery, Boston, MA
1999On Columbus Gallery, Boston, MA
1997Amherst Artist Guild, Amherst, NH
1997Harvard Square Art Center, Cambridge, MA
1996Ariel Gallery, New York, NY
1995New Hampshire Art Association, Concord, NH
1994Ariel Gallery, New York, NY
1992Harvard Square Art Center, Cambridge, MA
1991Ariel Gallery, New York, NY
1990Sax Gallery, Boston, MA
1989On Columbus Gallery, Boston, MA
1988New Hampshire Art Association, Concord, NH
1986English Gallery, Peterborough, NY
1986On Columbus Gallery, Boston, MA
1985Amherst Artist Guild, Amherst, NH
1985New Hampshire Art Association, Concord, NH

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2021Ceres Gallery, NYC
2020Ceres Gallery, NYC
Lazy Susan Gallery, NYC
2019Lazy Susan Gallery, NYC
ICFF, NYC
2018Launch F18, Peterborough, NH
2017Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2015North River Gallery, Chatham NY
2014Ceres Gallery, NYC
2010Launch Art Gallery, Peterborough, NH
2008Ceres Gallery, NYC
2006Ceres Gallery, NYC
2004Ceres Gallery, NYC
2003Ceres Gallery, NYC
2000Sax Gallery, Boston, MA
1998Ariel Gallery, NYC
Sax Gallery, Boston, MA
1997Ariel Gallery, NYC
1996Ariel Gallery, NYC
New Hampshire Art Association, Concord, NH
1993Harvard Square Art Center, Cambridge, MA
1992Ariel Gallery, NYC
1991Ariel Gallery, NYC
1990Ariel Gallery, NYC
1987English Gallery, Peterborough, NH
1986English Gallery, Peterborough, NH