Christine Puello

Christine Puello is a Dominican-American mixed-media artist from New York. She is a full-time third-year student at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Christine has had a passion for art from a young age and is committed to earning a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. Her works range from mediums like graphite, charcoal, oil, and acrylic, to photography and found-object sculptures. She is interested in searching for the multitude of ways that art can imitate and define life through its materiality. Her works find a way of redefining the intimacies between relationships with others, ourselves, and spaces.

Artist Statement

Untitled because you are hard to put into words. Untitled 1 is evidence of my brooding. Can you see how intricate and minuscule the pain is, yet how all-consuming it becomes? My hands form a circle for inner wholeness, a reminder that I exist eternally regardless. The piece depicts my torso, shirt over my head, exposing my chest and stomach, becoming vulnerable to the conditions. My hands are placed in the center of my chest in the form of a circle, where lines and curves infest it. Drawn in charcoal because now it is completely mine, it is evidence. Untitled 2 is evidence of you. Entering a meditative state, I began to think of all the ones I love, all the ones here and there. I thought about you, and you looked like a black hole. Then I thought of you, and I couldn’t stop drawing. You began to fill almost half the page. I can name every person and every experience I had on the page if you asked. They are drawn in their spitting image. Drawn in pencil because I must handle the ones I love with care.