About The Work

Christine Bush Roman’s work is a celebration of visual maximalism. Her mixed-media paintings explore themes of neurodiversity, mental illness, and parenthood, but also delight in absurdism.

While heavy issues are often at play in her imagery, Roman’s work acknowledges the nonsensical nature of modern existence. Her work reflects how one’s private internal world intersects with the requirements and expectations of society. Through drawing, painting, printmaking, and collage, Roman maps elaborate inner worlds and pokes fun at modern living. Her mixed media pieces straddle the line between whimsical and playful, and dark and disquieting. The work is often chaotic and abstract with elements of surrealism.
 
In the belief that art-making is a balance between intuition and planning, her works combine instinctive mark-making and strategic thematic imagery. The pieces are created using traditional water-based drawing and painting materials and incorporate collaged papers and textiles, found objects, wax, and threads.

About The Artist

Christine Bush Roman (b. 1983) is a mixed media artist and educator based in Charleston, South Carolina. She earned her MFA from the University of Georgia in 2013 and strives to combine visual art with storytelling. Each painting is unique and contains its own narrative, but the style is unified by a distinctive approach to color and mark-making that combines anthropomorphized creatures, geometry, sprawling organic shapes, and patterns. When not in her studio, she stays busy homeschooling her children, adjunct teaching at the College of Charleston, writing stories, and hanging out with animals. You can find her work at Miller Gallery and at ChristineBushRoman.com.