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I’m personally interested because I’m personally invested. My work is personal; it’s about me, but it’s also about you. I’m thinking about struggle, push and pull, a fight. I am talking about difference. I appropriate two accessible and familiar aesthetics: the very styled, glossy, directed commercial-like aesthetic and the snapshot. I am representing the underrepresented: queer people. I want to represent queer bodies and those bodies in motion. I want to connect through performance, gender performance and queer space outside the gender binary. I am capturing a community watching identities, naturalizing and denaturalizing. I am showing the “real” and constructing a real and unreal. Baroque painters like Caravaggio heavily influence my work aesthetically. His models are seemingly stuck in exaggerated unreal poses that make me lose my breath. The light, it just puts me in a trance. I am conflicted with my own obsession/relationship with/to pop culture – my attraction to glossy images and celebrities and pop music that makes me feel better and my compulsive consumption of it all. I guess it’s because, well, I want to see me. My work, my pictures, they include an element of this search for the self.
I want to relate I want to meet you there on this level we can all understand and this place where I’m standing, it starts with the familiar this spot where we both stand. I want to have a conversation. It’s ok if you don’t, I’ll still be here.
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2006
Christa Holka: Photographs, The Lobby Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2004
Art is a Drag, Newspace, Portland, Oregon |
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Central St. Martins College of Art & Design |
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BFA Photography Photography |
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BA, English Literature English Literature |
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State University of New York at Buffalo |
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Chicago Artists Assistance Program Grant |
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Chicago Artists Assistance Program Grant |
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2008
NAB Gallery, Chicago, IL (forthcoming, May 2008)
This Constant Cracking of the Surface, Bargehouse, London, UK
2007
Bridge Art Fair (Verge Project Space, collaboration with Marie Waltz), London, UK
COMA, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois
2006
COMA, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois
re: Surface, 237 Space, Toledo, Ohio
2005
Cash ‘N Carry, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Macerate, Up the Stairs Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Spring Formal, High School Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
My Secret Valentine, Skyline Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2004
dis/locator, HotHouse Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2003
Carousel, Columbus Park, Chicago, Illinois
2002
Photographs, The Hat Factory, Chicago, Illinois
2001
BLISSTER, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
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WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF:
CAMERAS: DSLR-Canon, 4X5-Toyo and Cambio, 120-Mamiya, Hasselblad
LIGHTS: Profoto, Speedotron, Elinchrom
FLASH METER: Sekonic
DIGITAL SERVICES:
- Programs/OS: Mac OS Leopard, Capture
One, Adobe CS3, Bridge, Toast, File Maker
Pro, Microsoft Office
- High-Res Digital Scanning: Imacon
- Epson Professional Printing: 1800, 2200,
7600
- Monitor/printer calibration/profiling
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