Christie Serpentine is an interdisciplinary artist whose work arises from an ongoing dialogue between duality, identity, land, and transformation. Rooted in materiality, working primarily in sculpture and mixed media installation, her practice explores the space where strength and vulnerability collide, and the ways destruction can give way to growth. Serpentine draws from environment, transcendentalism, femininity, and personal mythology to investigate how we reclaim identity and build our own worlds. Her process explores how meaning can emerge, collapse, and evolve again through rituals, belief systems, and material transformation.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Serpentine holds a BFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and has a background in Environmental Studies. Her perspective is shaped by both urban grit and untamed landscapes. Her early life was defined by a fragmented upbringing and the contradictions of growing up in a concrete city. A longing for expansiveness and a deeper connection to the natural world eventually led her into Conservation work, where she spent years restoring ecological landscapes across North America. Years of communal, off-grid living while doing intense construction labor deepened her connection to material, environment, and the human condition. Time spent navigating male dominated fields, remote and rugged terrains, and psychologically demanding conditions sharpened her perspective through a feminist lens. This lens allows her to explore the complexities of womanhood, where fractures become seams, and the act of transmuting suffering into beauty becomes a celebration of resilience and empowerment. These formative years continue to anchor her approach to art as both angst and offering.

Glass is central to Serpentine’s practice for its ability to embody contradiction and emotional weight, both in form and process. Fragile, luminous, transparent, and unforgiving, it mirrors the dualities of the human experience, holding tension between clarity and distortion, delicacy and strength, allure and volatility. She often pairs glass with stone or concrete to explore contrasts between the feminine and the masculine, the reflective and the solid, instability and permanence, the elemental and the industrial. Though these materials suggest opposing qualities, they are shaped by the same forces: heat, pressure, time, and minerals. This shared origin reveals a deeper connection beneath perceived differences, mirroring the way contradiction and cohesion exist within us all. Together they form a material language, both celebrating and grappling with the layered complexity of being.

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CONTACT

christie@serpentinegardenstudio.com
215.498.8185

EDUCATION

2020 Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia PA
BFA in Sculpture with a focus in Glass

EXHIBITIONS

2025 solo exhibition - Nature VS. Nurture, Revolt Gallery, Taos NM
2024 Forty Artists Under Forty, Taos Center of the Arts, Taos NM
2024 Herspective, Revolt Gallery, Taos NM
2023 The Paseo 2023, Kit Carson Park Outdoor Arts Festival, Taos NM
2023 TCA Animated Shorts Reception, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos NM
2023 Pink Velvet, Revolt Gallery, Taos, NM
2022 Experimental Art Festival, Artist Abbey Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM
2022 Through a Glass, Darkly..., The Delaware Contemporary Museum, Wilmington, DE
2021 Don’t Get Comfortable, S.H. Historic Kress Building, ABQ, NM
2020 IN BETWEEN: a rock, & a hard place., Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
2020 On The Fence, Philadelphia Art Collective, Phila, PA
2019 Extra:Ordinary, Trolley Shop Brewerytown, Phila, PA
2019 Time To Pretend, All Women’s Showcase, Circle of Hope, Phila, PA
2018 Negatively Curved, Stella Elkins Gallery, Phila, PA

PUBLICATIONS

Albuquerque Journal 2025 - Art Review: Christie Serpentine's ambitious participatory art show “Nature vs. Nurture"
Taos News 2025 - The feminist alchemy of Christie Serpentine’s 'Nature vs. Nurture'
Paseo Project 2023 - paseoproject festival christie serpentine
THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY 2022- decontemporary.org through a glass, darkly
Time To Pretend III 2019 -phobymo.com time to pretend
On The Fence 2019 - venusian.com onthefence