Christine Cuddihy's practice deals primarily with aspects of memory, perception, and awareness. By cross-referencing areas of the imagination with raw and creative source material, her paintings express something that becomes fragmented, awkward, and simutaneously familiar and unfarmiliar. She explores physical and imaginative realities, and acknowledges artifice and abstraction. The spaces she deals with are conceptual and incomplete. They are fragmented, like the spaces she is initially drawn to: those that have an atmosphere of faded grandeur, and those that are bleak and imperfect. The paintings have in common a sense of disintegration, of abjectness and abondonment and yet contradict one another in their sense of mystery and directness, and of atmospheric and literal representation.
