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	Christina Hope
			ARTIST STATEMENT Water is the medium of life. In her book A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman notes that when we were only nascent beings floating in a warming sea, our first eyes were patches of skin that could discern light from dark. Water taught us to see. It is the home we can never live in again, yet it continues to call us. I go underwater with my camera, with ideas, with visions. The compositions are classical, sometimes allegorical. All involve the human form. This is a given. I arrange props and models in this hushed, submerged world and hold my breath. Light pours from above and the bodies become luminous. Water has its own transforming power. It both contains and suspends time. It is a liquid lens, delicately sifting shades of light and shadow. Hundreds of images later, the water reveals evanescent visions of its own. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2002 University Art Gallery, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg, South Carolina 1998 COMING UP FOR AIR, Agnes Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama 1995 ANGELS UNDER WATER, Silver Palm Gallery, Hilton Head, South Carolina 1994 Art Center, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, South America 1993 ANGELS UNDER WATER, Agnes Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama CHRISTINA HOPE-PHOTOGRAPHY, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana CHRISTINA HOPE-PHOTOGRAPHY, Mario Villa Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1991 CHRISTINA HOPE-PHOTOGRAPHY, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana 1990 WATER ANGELS, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida SMALL WORKS, Available Light Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida 1989 ANGEL, Menotti Galleria, Milan, Italy 1980 SIX FEET UNDER, Flagler College Gallery, St. Augustine, Florida 1975 Design Unlimited Gallery, St. Andrews, Scotland SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION 2000 20 YEARS OF INFINITE VISION, with Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Arthur Kern, Gyuri Hollosy, Julian LaTrobe, Renee Monrose, Mario Villa Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana OFF THE WALL, The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut POLAROID 2000, THE POLAROID PROJECT II, 20x24, House Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida WINGS OF HOPE, with Deepak Chopra, Epps Aviation Hangar, Atlanta, Georgia 1999 TABOO presents TESTOSTERONE, Vaknin Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia REFLECTIONS, RAF Gallery, Savannah, Georgia 1997 THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY, with Jack Leigh, Todd Murphy, Laura Noel, Eugen Schoenfeld, The Gwinett Fine Arts Center, Duluth, Georgia THE POLAROID PROJECT I, 20x24, Darryl Bunn Studio, Jacksonville, Florida FANTASY FORMS AND FIGURES, with Enzo Torcoletti, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida WATER ANGELS, Silver Palm Gallery, Hilton Head, South Carolina H2O + AgNO3, Target Gallery, Juror: John Echave, Photo Editor National Geographic, Alexandria, Virginia 1996 ANDY WARHOL�CHRISTINA HOPE�JERRY UELSMANN, The F. Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida 1995 HEAVENLY BODIES, Earth & Fire Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana WOMEN ON WOMEN, Ricciardi Gallery, Astoria, Oregon 1994 GALLERY ARTISTS, Spazi Contemporary Art, Housatonic, Massachusetts 1993 THE FEMININE IMAGE, with Sally Mann-Alice Neel-Alex Katz, Atlantic Center for The Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida SENSE AND SENSUALITY, Gallery 88, Jacksonville, Florida 1992 CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, Herb Ritts, David Salle, Christina Hope- Jerry Uelsmann, Leigh Wiener, Rex Miller, Fleck/Ellman Gallery, Aspen, Colorado IMAGE-IMPACT, FOUR PHOTOGRAPHERS, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida 41ST ANNUAL ALL-FLORIDA, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida VISUAL ART FELLOWSHIP91-92, Center of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida CHRISTINA HOPE-PHOTOGRAPHY, NOFA DIXON-SCULPTURE, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville, Florida FLORIDA�S FINEST, 1991-92, University Gallery of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 1991 APA�S FIRST ANNUAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, NIKON HOUSE, New York, New York 51ST INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON EXHIBITION, Japan (Traveling) FACT & FICTIO