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Artist’s Statement
Trying to make a living as
artist requires not just
skills, but the willingness to
jump your own shadow and
create according to the needs
of your surroundings. The
needs of your surroundings
change wherever you go, why it
is so important to me to
travel.
This portefolio features
representative pieces of the
artist's work. For a full body
of work visit:
http://christine.exto.org.
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Artist Reviews:
http://www.metrotimes.com/edito
rial/story.asp?id=8337
The article came out for the
occasion of the publication of
the book "Images in Stone.
Detroit - The First 300
Years". The book by Christine
Haehner - Murdock about
Detroit's architecture and
history features 40 pen & ink
drawings of prominent Detroit
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Collections:
Heide Korn, Vienna, Austria
Dr. Marcus Kroendel, Basel,
Switzerland
Tom Edwards, Sidney, Australia
John Cork, Cheltenham, England
Odilia Avellaneda, Taylor, MI,
USA
Yumana Dubaisi, Dearborn
Heights, MI, USA
Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson
Collection, MI, USA
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Commissions:
Most commissions were either
house/estate portraits or
portraits of people.
Whereas the estate portrait
focuses more on what is (or is
important to the person, who
lives in it), the people
portrait can be done in two
different ways: The two
extreme ends are mind
portraits and physical
portraits.
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Exhibitions for Christine Haehner Murdock:
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2006, May: Grant award to create artwork for the GM World Headquarters in Detroit
2006, March: Exhibition "Now and Then" at Bagley Housing, Detroit
2005: Creation of the award winning book "Images in Stone. Detroit – The first 300 years." 40 pen and ink renderings of Detroit's beautiful architecture w/historical text, sponsored by MotorCities National Heritage Area and the Detroit Area Art Deco Society.
2004: August until September 2005: Coordination of exhibits at the “International Mini Café”, Detroit; January –September: Pen & Ink portrait of the Cities of the Grosse Pointes, to be published as book w/text and 25 drawings mid-2005.
2003: September Exhibition in and Opening of P.L.A.C.E.S.-The Gallery; Participation in an exhibition at the Detroit Club
2002: Illustrations for Children’s’ Book “The Flop”. An alien discovers earth; Participation in an exhibition at Bagley Housing, Detroit,MI; Tall Ship Series (Westcoast); Display at the International Institute of Metropolitan, Detroit and other Detroit facilities
2001: Series of Tall Ships (14 pieces), exhibited during the Detroit 300 Celebration (the Landing of Tall Ships at Hart Plaza), June 2001 at Novus Art Gallery, Grosse Pointe, MI.
2000: Grosse Pointe, MI: series of high scale real-estates, most of them on a commission basis, Series of Detroit City Portraits
1999: Travels through Europe, particularly England and France, Images in pen&ink – focus on the study of architecture.
1998: Series of 22 Nudes, Acrylic on Canvas
1991-1998: Study of Fine Art at the University of Siegen
1978-1990: prizes in several regional art competitions in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
1972: Born in Germany into a family of artists. Studies began from age 3, when my parents taught me various fine art techniques, including figurative drawing (wet & dry media), printing techniques (incl. woodcuts, linol-block-print, copper-& aluminum etching, soapstone sculpture, batik, clay)
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