Photograph of Artist CHRISTINA GATTORNO
CHRISTINA GATTORNO
Hollywood, Florida - United States



Original Artworks (20)

Christina Gattorno; Streetcar Named Graffiti, 2015, Original Photography Color, 42 x 33.5 inches. Artwork description: 241      Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas            ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2015
42 x 33.5 inches (106.7 x 85.1 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Dark Shadows, 2012, Original Photography Color, 24.5 x 42 inches. Artwork description: 241     Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas           ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2012
24.5 x 42 inches (62.2 x 106.7 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Getting Blue, 2004, Original Photography Color, 42 x 32 inches. Artwork description: 241    Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas          ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2004
42 x 32 inches (106.7 x 81.3 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Nobody, 2006, Original Photography Black and White, 42 x 35 inches. Artwork description: 241   Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas         ...
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Original Black and White Photograph, 2006
42 x 35 inches (106.7 x 88.9 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Benches Series 4, 2006, Original Photography Black and White, 42 x 10.5 inches. Artwork description: 241  Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas        ...
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Original Black and White Photograph, 2006
42 x 10.5 inches (106.7 x 26.7 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Lip Service, 2004, Original Photography Color, 42 x 29 inches. Artwork description: 241    Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas       ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2004
42 x 29 inches (106.7 x 73.7 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Pink In The Center, 2004, Original Photography Color, 42 x 31.5 inches. Artwork description: 241   Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas      ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2004
42 x 31.5 inches (106.7 x 80.0 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Applied Statistics, 2008, Original Photography Color, 35 x 42 inches. Artwork description: 241  Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas     ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2008
35 x 42 inches (88.9 x 106.7 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Pink Vacation, 2012, Original Photography Color, 39 x 42 inches. Artwork description: 241  Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas    ...
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Original Color Photograph, 2012
39 x 42 inches (99.1 x 106.7 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Into The Pink, 2015, Original Photography Color, 42 x 36 inches. Artwork description: 241  Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2015
42 x 36 inches (106.7 x 91.4 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; 3am, 2004, Original Photography Color, 42 x 28 inches. Artwork description: 241  It's 3am on a Tuesday, from my car the city looks like a blur.  As I speed up to 60 mph it lights up like the 4th of July.Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas  ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2004
42 x 28 inches (106.7 x 71.1 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Dont Bug Me 4, 2009, Original Photography Color, 42 x 30 inches. Artwork description: 241     Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas     ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2009
42 x 30 inches (106.7 x 76.2 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Dont Bug Me 3, 2009, Original Photography Color, 42 x 29 inches. Artwork description: 241    Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas    ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2009
42 x 29 inches (106.7 x 73.7 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Dont Bug Me 2, 2009, Original Photography Color, 42 x 31.5 inches. Artwork description: 241   Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas   ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2009
42 x 31.5 inches (106.7 x 80.0 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Dont Bug Me, 2009, Original Photography Color, 42 x 29 inches. Artwork description: 241  Conceptual Photographic ArtDigital print on archival paper. Mounted on Aluminum & Plexiglas  ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2009
42 x 29 inches (106.7 x 73.7 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Bait, 2015, Original Photography Color, 42 x 31.5 inches. Artwork description: 241  This was actually an experiment on the power of chocolate over some people. The piece was placed in my kitchen in plain sight. I lasted 34 days before I tore into the chocolate, leaving the lock and chain in place. I took the bait!Conceptual Photographic Art...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2015
42 x 31.5 inches (106.7 x 80.0 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Sick, 2004, Original Photography Color, 36 x 30 inches. Artwork description: 241 Series 14 - Sick - Riding High on a Deep Depression - is a close up of a beautiful face on a popular fashion magazine. The pills on top of this face show the medicated nation phenomena. The last image of a smile represents the feeling we have while on ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2004
36 x 30 inches (91.4 x 76.2 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Copycat, 2004, Original Photography Color, 36 x 21 inches. Artwork description: 241 Series 30 - Copy Cat - I couldn' t resist, I thought perhaps Id successfully removed my Warhol bug by creating Not Warhol, I was wrong. Warhol is incurable, his iconic silkscreen look is now and forever will be breathtaking. I had but one alternative- to outright copy ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2004
36 x 21 inches (91.4 x 53.3 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Not Warhol, 2004, Original Photography Color, 36 x 28 inches. Artwork description: 241 Series 24 - Not Warhol - I owe my style primarily to four artists: Warhol, Picasso, Pollock, and Van Gogh. Andy Warhol was the most influential in my work. I wanted to take his concept further, deeper, to create something of my own. This is in tribute/ mockery of ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2004
36 x 28 inches (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
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Christina Gattorno; Off To The Side, 2004, Original Photography Color, 36 x 29 inches. Artwork description: 241 Series 21 - Off To The Side is a completely surreal piece. It begins with the photograph of a trailer with all the cliche toilet planters, and then off to the side is a more tranquil, quiet place away from everything, a way out as it were. Beauty ...
Christina Gattorno
Original Color Photograph, 2004
36 x 29 inches (91.4 x 73.7 cm)
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Artist Statement

As an artist I have three goals - to distort, deconstruct, and alter perceptions within my reality by the use of any means.

- Christina Gattorno

The Art:
I usually pick subjects that are either of an experimental or cultural behavioral nature. Most of my work begins more as a sculpture would, by this I mean I create something solid, then if needed I add a canvas which I paint accordingly. I use props; in fact I have a collection. Props can be anything, whatever I find interesting, or useful for future pieces. I only use a prop once then it is discarded.

I spend months, even years, photographing EVERYTHING - from someone sitting on a bench to a wrapper on the floor. I consider my photographs also part of my prop collection. My work is a multimedia puzzle; the trick is pasting everything together until it makes sense. Then I deconstruct and abstract it. It's funny looking at a finished piece; it looks easy, simple, and pure. So I would have to say that my thrill isn't in the finished piece, but in the process.

The Artist:
Christina Gattorno was born in New York City in 1972. She grew up internationally between New York City, Florida, Europe, and Mexico City. After viewing a Bergman film in an art museum at the age of ten, she began obsessively studying film and cinematheque along with modern art. This began a weekend ritual of cinematheque and art gallery visits.

By the 1980's, Warhol and his contemporaries had become a Pop Culture phenomenon. While other children of her generation were involved in John Hughes films and other 80's icons, she followed the cinematheque genre. Such films were only shown in art galleries and museums. During these visits, she became fascinated by several modern artists But is was Vincent Van Gogh who opened her eyes to not just modern art, but all art in general. Thanks to her mother, she was able to travel and feed all of her artistic passions from an early age. The ritual of weekend cinematheque (now known as independent cinema) and gallery/museum visits continues to this day.

Currently, she is working on a film deconstructing T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland".

Christina resides in West Palm Beach, Florida.

For information, interviews, and commissions, please contact: sales@christinagattorno.com
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