CHRISTINE GRAF : THE LIGHT IS SEEKING YOU

May 21 - June 27, 2025

Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC, is pleased to present Christine Graf‘s 2025 solo virtual exhibition, The Light is Seeking You.

In this deeply tactile and poetic body of work, Christine Graf invites us into a world shaped by memory, nature, and transformation. As a mixed media artist, Christine describes her process as one of total immersion—her hands in everything: paper, paint, fabric, thread, and a trove of organic materials that evoke both fragility and strength.

“I want my hands touching everything,” she says. “These humble materials—rusted metal, tea-dyed canvas, string, shells, driftwood, vintage books—feel like the sweepings from the sea or a hoarder’s forgotten collection. But each has lived a life, and each has a story to tell.”

SELECTED WORKS

With every stitch into eco-dyed fabric, Christine builds a narrative that honors the history embedded in each object: a smoothed piece of Baltic driftwood, a rusted tool symbolizing resilience, a scrap of fabric that once clothed a child. In reassembling these fragments, she breathes new life into what was once discarded—revealing beauty in imperfection and transformation.

Her work is a meditation on the Japanese concept of wabi sabi—the reverence of the cracked cup, the rusted gear. It is in these traces of time, in the weathered and worn, that Christine finds light, healing, and renewal. Through her art, she reminds us that what was once broken can be reborn.

Christine Graf is inspired by nature and biomorphic forms in the creation of her assemblages, approaching her work with a deep reverence for the abundance of plant and sea life and the beauty of the earth. As a counterpoint, she is equally drawn to geometry, pattern, and design, which inform the structure and rhythm of her collages.

Her practice incorporates a wide range of mixed media, including raw canvas, tea, bookbinding threads, wood boxes, vintage and altered papers, rusted metal, encaustics, and paint. Rooted in process, her work embraces the principles of Wabi Sabi, honoring the passage of time, the fragility of nature, and the cycles of life and decay.

Christine’s pieces are animated by contemplative repetition, the layering of materials, and a poetic use of space. Her assemblages often carry strong narrative threads, shaped by objects imbued with metaphor and meaning.