Christopher's profile
Project specific artwork performing interlacing talents. Drawing to interactive media and ultimately to public sculpture. I grab the closest tools at hand, a habit that came from working on construction sites with my dad, a jack of all trades.
I grew up around artists, watching how my mom, Oletha DeVane, interacted within Baltimore's legacy of creators. Joyce Scott, Linda DePalma, Leslie King-Hammond, Charles Fox, Tom Miller, Paul Daniels, David Hess, and Helen Frederick, among others, influenced how a community-directed conversation of material honesty, experiments, and laughter informalized a sincerity to look at the world.
UMBC's MFA program formalized a Digital Arts research methodology that crystalized after a few of us got together and formed the strikeWare Collective. The media arts group steps off of grants and educational workshops to create interactive sculpture, XR media, and design-centered exhibitions, usually in the DMV area. Internalizing language, stories, and facts on the mysteries of our past refine my ideas for understanding society thru visual art.
