"Christina Hale: Executive Mansion, Hotel California"
2001-02-03 until 2001-02-28
Bergamot Station Art Center, Robert Berman Gallery, D5 Projects
Santa Monica, CA, USA United States of America

The work of Christina Hale unabashedly blends the techniques of Social Realism and German Expressionism with graffiti sub-culture and then some. Her powerful drawings, done with graphite on large paper segments ripped off of a roll and oil on canvas, reveal cultural collisions. Her works have a very urban feel; they are stories told of street life, family, violence and reality. This is juxtaposed with the physicality of the art itself as something more celebrated by an intellectual elitism.

Her drawings are dynamic. It is this vitality that not only compounds these polarities but also breathes life into the work that the viewer can then experience. Hale's inspiration stems not only from her life experience but different facets of history as well. Her work encompasses all of these things, and together with a great technical skill, Christina Hale creates a completely new artistic vocabulary to be experienced.

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