Christina Bothwell
Artist processes
In my work I am drawn to the processes of birth, death, and renewal. What lies below the surface fascinates me and I try to capture the qualities of the “unseen” that express the sense of wonder that I feel in my daily existence. I am attracted to glass because it can do everything that other sculptural media can; in addition, it offers an inner space and transmits light.
My subject matter includes babies, animals, and children as they embody the essence of vulnerability that is the underlying theme in my work. Currently I am exploring metamorphosis as a topic, and have been incorporating figures within figures in my pieces. Within each glass figure there is a smaller figure seen through the surface of the glass.
I think of these pieces as souls, each being pregnant with their own potential, giving birth to new, improved versions of themselves.
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Museum of International Contemporary Glass, Denmark
SMOG, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation, Munich, Germany
The Smithsonian Museum of Art’s Archives of American Art,
Oral History Collection
Fuller Craft Museum, MA
Racine Museum, Racine, WI
Corning Glass Museum, NY
Palm Springs Museum, CA
Lowe Art Museum, FL
Virginia Groot Foundation Collection, IL
2014 Salon Show, “Christina Bothwell,”, Austin Art Projects & Studio, Palm Desert, California
2012 Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2011 POWER IN EACH STEP, Obsolete Gallery, Venice, CA
2010 LANDSCAPE WITHIN, Echt Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 TRANSITORY PRESENCE, E Avery Draper Showcase, Delaware Center
for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware
Exhibition travels to Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2008 THE DREAM WELL, Habatat Chicago Gallery, Illinois
2007-2008 INVISIBLE REALITIES, Exhibition travels to Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH,
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio,
Heller Gallery, New York, NY, 32 page full color catalogue available
2007 BETWEEN FASCINATION AND FEAR: Mixed Media Sculpture,
Heller Gallery, New York, NY
BELOW THE SURFACE, Habatat Gallery Chicago, Illinois
2004 L’Eclat du Verre Gallery, Paris, France
2003 LUCID DREAMING, Habatat Galleries, Chicago, Illinois,
2002 John Elder Gallery, New York City, NY
1999 I REMEMBER YOUR VOICE, Elliot Smith Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri
HIDDEN IN FULL VIEW, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, California
SCREEN MEMORIES, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DOGS, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1997 LIVING WITH GHOSTS, Radix Gallery, New York, NY
1996 WHEN DOLLS GROW OLD, K & E Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Figure It, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio
Contemporary Glass Sculpture, Palm Desert Museum, Palm Desert, California
Narrative Sculpture, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
Shattered, Contemporary Sculpture in Glass, Frederick Meijer Garden Exhibition, Grand Rapids, MI
2013 10 Years, Gallery Sklo’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery Sklo, Korea
Ocean, A Look at Marine Life Through Glass, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft,
Denmark, *full color catalogue
41st International Glass Award Winners Exhibition, Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Visions, 41st Annual International Glass Invitational, Habatat Michigan Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan,
*full color catalogue
The Philadelphia Story Exhibition, Asheville Museum of Contemporary
Art, Asheville, North Carolina
2012 Perturbations, Le Musee Febre, France
Fire and Sand, Mesa Museum, Contemporary Art Center
The Female Gaze, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Phila.
40th International Glass Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012 40th Annual International Invitational Glass Exhibition, Habatat
Michigan Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan, *full color catalogue
2011 Strong Presence, Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL
In The Name of Love, Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation, Germany
*full color book
2011 Strong Presence, Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Fresh Figurines, A New Look at a Historical Art Form, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Regards Complices, Musee Languedocien, Montpelier, France,
*full color catalogue
Anything But Clear, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee
Glass Uprising, Swanson Reed Gallery, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville KY 2010
2010 See Through, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY
Matters of Size, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2009 Visages, Rockford Art Museum, Chicago, IL,
Narratives in Contemporary Glass, Art Gallery,Highland Park, IL
Rising Stars, Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Millville, NJ
2007 The Art of Glass from Galle to Chihuly, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
2006 Poetic Expressions of Mortality, Figurative Ceramics, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Al, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Al
Life Insight. The Human Experience, Kentucky Museum of Art, KY.
2005 OUTSIDE THE CENTERS/ON THE EDGE. Exhibition travels to
Kutztown U., Pa College of Art & Design, Lancaster, Erie Art Museum,
Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell U, Lewisberg, Southern Alleghenies
Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
Figurative Art , Arnot Art Museum, NY
2004 1st Biennale International, La Puissance Du Verre dans L’art Contemporain, Paris, Franc
HSINCHU INT’L GLASS ART EXHIBITION, Hsinchu Museum,Taiwan
