Cristina Getson is an abstract expressionist painter based in Toronto, Canada. Working with acrylics, Cristina’s work is imbued with vibrant colors and influenced by the pull of opposites - smooth and rough, light and dark, indefinite and detailed. It is a dialogue between past and present in order to capture not the physical aspects of a moment in time, but rather the feeling of it. The application of paint is made visible through the brushstrokes and marks left behind; it is a joyful reveling in the materiality of the paint itself. Cristina has exhibited in Canada and across the United States, and was accepted as an Artist-in-Residence at Palazzo Monti in Italy, in 2018.
Education
2009 Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
1998 Bachelor of Applied Science, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering. University of Toronto, Canada.
Selected Exhibitions
2019 Arta Gallery. Toronto, Canada (October 24 - November 12)
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. Toronto, Canada (July 12 - 14)
Best of New Submissions, Elaine Fleck Gallery. Toronto, Canada (July 1 - 14) 2019 Summer Exhibition, Blue Crow Gallery. Toronto (July - August)
2018 Aqua Art Miami, Stella Ripley Gallery. Miami, Florida (Dec. 5 - 9)
Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Stella Ripley Gallery. Houston, Texas (Oct. 4 - 7) 2018 Queen West Art Crawl. Toronto, Canada (September 22 - 23)
Summer Exhibition, Blue Crow Gallery. Toronto (July - August)
The Other Art Fair. Brooklyn, New York (May 3 - 6)
Stripes, bG Gallery. Santa Monica, California (May)
Wondrous Ways, Arta Gallery. Toronto, Canada (March 22 - April 2)
2017 The Other Art Fair. Brooklyn, New York (November 9 - 12)
Queen West Art Crawl. Toronto, Canada (September 23 - 24)
2016 Group Show, Art Square Gallery. Toronto, Canada (December)
5th Annual Group Show, Project: Art Studio. Toronto, Canada (June)
2015 Eclectic Journey, Art Square Gallery. Toronto, Canada (December)
Pop-Up Show, Project: Art Studio. Toronto, Canada (December)
Publications
2019 Odd One Out Magazine
2018 House & Garden, featured in The Art Edit (July - September)
2017 Art Maze Magazine, Anniversary edition (October)
Residencies
2018 Artist residency, Palazzo Monti. Brescia, Italy (August)
CRISTINA GETSON