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B.C. Binning
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Christine D’Onofrio is a visual artist currently practicing and teaching photography in Vancouver. Her photographic work is often concerned with objects and products used by women to beautify the body to examine notions of femininity and the body. Nude is from a series of large-scale monochromatic photographs of enlarged views of women’s panty-hose, a material that creates the illusion of flawless skin in order to permit a public form of nudity. The image of enlarged weave patterns of stretched hosiery in the absence of the body that shapes it is made up of intricately delicate patterns. Moirés created by overlapping two layers of hoisery produce an unstable field of shifting patterns. Misalignments interfere with one another to produce an optical effect of light and dark “bends.” Viewed from a distance, the grid structure dissolves into a monochrome, much like the pencil grid on an Agnes Martin canvas. The active surface of the weave recalls the retinal preoccupations of abstract painting. This subtle and seductive image references modernist tropes by exploiting the illusionism of photography. She attended York University in Toronto for her BFA, and completed her MFA from the University of British Columbia in 2003. She has exhibited in Toronto and Vancouver, most recently at the Charles H Scott Gallery. D’Onofrio is represented by Republic Gallery, Vancouver.
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