Christina McPhee’s images move from within a matrix of abstraction, shadowing figures and contingent effects. Her work emulates potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, and in real and imagined ecologies. Her dynamic, performative, physical engagement with drawing, in both her analogue and digital works, is a seduction into surface-skidding calligraphies and mark-making. Lines throw down rope-like bridges, cat’s-cradling figures, or a search for grounding and commons. Christina McPhee was born in Los Angeles County into a family of teachers, fourth-generation immigrants of Frisian/Sorb/Saxon ancestry. Her parents moved the family from LA to a town in the prairies of eastern Nebraska, where she grew up. Back in Los Angeles at eighteen, she won a scholarship to Scripps College, Claremont, then earned a BFA in painting and printmaking at Kansas City Art Institute. At Boston University for the MFA, she was a student of Philip Guston. During the nineties, she created a series of large scale watercolor drawings based on migration, dance ritual, and archaeological sites in the plains and mountain west. In the 2000s, she developed her landscape-based practice within electronic media, remote performance, video installation and photography. She was involved with New York exhibitions and screenings, notably with Sara Tecchia Gallery in Chelsea, Pace Digital Gallery in lower Manhattan; and Roulette and Issue Project Room in Brooklyn; as well as Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco. She lives and works between California’s central coast and Los Angeles. Museum collections include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum-Rhizome Artbase, and International Center for Photography, New York; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; and Thresholds New Media Collection, Scotland. Solo museum exhibitions include the American University Museum, Washington, D.C., and Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden. She has participated in group exhibitions, notably with documenta 12, Bucharest Biennial 3, Museum of Modern Art Medellin, and California Museum of Photography. As a teacher, McPhee has engaged with students in drawing (Kansas City Art Institute), electronic media (Anderson Ranch, and the University of California-Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media MFA program) and media theory (UC-Santa Cruz, Film and Media Studies). She was honored in 2012-13 to work with Pamela Z, for their collaborative performance work, “Carbon Song Cycle,” which won