Christina Bothwell

Christina Bothwell (born December 1, 1960, New York City) She is known for glass, ceramic, and mixed media sculptures that portray the processes of birth, death, and renewal. Reviewing her 1997 solo exhibition Living with Ghosts at the Radix Gallery, New York, critic Mark Zimmerman said of her "Bothwell’s work turns symbols into spirits of creation."

Her work is held in permanent public collections such as the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning NY; Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; Shanghai Museum of Glass Art, Shanghai, China; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA and the Alexander Tutsek - Stiftung foundation, Munich, Germany.

Biography

Christina Bothwell was born in New York City, and grew up primarily in town and cities in New York and Pennsylvania. Her parents were not conventional. working with Will Barnet.

Awards

Bothwell has won numerous scholarships and grants including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Virginia A. Groot Foundation award for excellence in sculpture.

Setbacks

On August 8, 2018 a massive fire destroyed Bothwell's art studio, a converted barn in Pennsylvania. Four days later a flood raged through the area, causing further destruction. A significant number of her works along with equipment, materials and personal objects, were destroyed in addition to the studio itself.