Christina Nafziger

Create! Magazine • 6th April 2021

The Slippery Skin We're In: Interview with Mariah Ferrari

Mariah Ferrari’s subject matter and glossy painting technique is specific and exacting, creating a style that is all her own. Using her unbelievable talent in painting, the artist renders arms and legs that are slippery and slick, twisting and bending...

Create! Magazine • 30th March 2021

Using Play to Create Immersive Installations: Interview with Dana Lynn Harper

Dana Lynn Harper uses the power of play and experimentation to create immersive installations that transform space and state of mind. Leaning into her distaste for rules, she unleashes her creativity by breaking barriers and using non-traditional materials.

Create! Magazine • 25th March 2021

Guest Curator Gita Joshi Discusses "Springing Forward"

Recently, Gita Joshi curated our virtual exhibition Springing Forward! Join us in conversation as Joshi discusses her curatorial process and the artwork included in Springing Forward.

Create! Magazine • 23rd March 2021

Making Tangible Images: Interview with Cécile Davidovici

After her mother's death, Davidovici felt a need to replace images and sound with tangible, touchable materials. She found that a new medium allowed her to anchor herself in the moment: textiles.

Create! Magazine • 17th March 2021

Infusing the Soul of the Neighborhood into Murals: Interview with Jeffrey Zimmerman —

Chicago native Jeff Zimmermann has exhibited and created large scale murals internationally. Commissioned artwork includes Fortune 500 companies, the E.P.A, museums and universities. His work has been featured on the Today Show and in the New York Times.

Create! Magazine • 9th March 2021

Sustainable Art: Listening Deeply to Plants with Abena Motaboli

Abena Motaboli’s work is earthy and textural, as she magically transfers the lifeblood and energy of nature into her artwork. Growing up in Lesotho, Africa, Motaboli was exposed to the natural beauty of this region and has stayed connected to nature...

Create! Magazine • 4th March 2021

Painting with a Visual Punch: Interview with Adam Crawford

Adam Crawford’s paintings are visual punches. Their vivid, striking colors and bold shapes will grab hold of your attention, demanding that you spend time in the playful, vibrant compositions that he creates. Whether painting in his studio or out in...

Create! Magazine • 22nd February 2021

Visual Love Letters: An Interview with Amy Donaldson

The paintings of Amy Donaldson are hypnotic; they are saturated with thick, bold strokes of oil paint that dance like reflections of light on the canvas. She infuses the influential style of the Impressionists with the inspiration she finds in...

Create! Magazine • 13th February 2021

The Canvas as: a Screen, a Window, a Garden Partition - Interview with Ellen Hanson —

Ellen Hanson’s paintings are shape shifters. They are optical illusions that miraculously turn the canvas into a window, a screen, a wall, a window, and (soon enough) a garden partition. She physically builds her own canvases that fit her own dreams...

Create! Magazine • 25th January 2021

Capturing Female Complexities on Clay: Interview with Genevieve Dionne

Artist Genevieve Dionne has taken this beloved process and infused it into her own vision, steering it away from pencil and paper and right onto textile and earthy slabs of clay. Through Dionne’s unique process, the artist creates glimpses of the...

Create! Magazine • 17th January 2021

Fragments of a Memory: An interview with Wendelin Wohlgemuth

Have you ever had a memory that seems so vivid with emotion, yet you cannot quite picture it exactly? A memory that is more of a feeling than a clear image, but nonetheless important and cherished? Such are the paintings of Wendelin Wohlgemuth....

Create! Magazine • 11th January 2021

Seeking Sanctuary in the Unearthly Paintings of Wendell Gladstone

The brilliant work of Wendell Gladstone is both complex in subject matter and form, as the artist renders twisted, radiant bodies that almost glow, and also layered in psychological tension and emotion. Gladstone’s unearthly bodies bend and reach to...

Create! Magazine • 4th January 2021

Exploring the Mall Aesthetic with Katie Neece

For those of us who remember mall culture, be warned that you are about to experience some major flashbacks! The seductive shapes, patterns, and saturated colors in the work of Katie Neece will promptly bring you back to a time when the mall was the...

Create! Magazine • 21st November 2020

The Perception of Color (in art and culture): An interview with Dominic Chambers

Dominic Chambers creates intimate, often domestic scenes that are deeply rich in both color and meaning. His paintings are mostly monochromatic, or their compositions are split in two through the dominant use of two vivid hues pressing up against each...

Create! Magazine • 20th November 2020

Sophie Dherbecourt: Intertwined Intimacy in the Nude Form

French-artist Sophie Dherbecourt creates perfectly balances paintings that fill the canvas with (mostly female) bodies. Legs and arms bend, reach, and intertwine with another person’s body, creating complex positions that fit right in with one...

Sixty Inches From Center • 14th November 2020

Open Sheds Used for What?: An interview with Cecilia & Marina Resende Santos

Open Sheds Used for What? conjures more questions than answers, which is precisely where its magic comes from—that, and its devotion in spirit and design to collaboration, community, and experimentation. The brainchild of collaborators and twin...

Create! Magazine • 27th October 2020

Mythical Ecology: Exploring the Geographical with Julianna Foster —

Photographer Julianna Foster creates work that is situated between photo and object, within the cracks of the three-dimensional. As her work is often monochromatic, her images are abstracted by a limited palette, creating a rupture in the composition....

Sixty Inches From Center • 19th October 2020

Works Cited: 'The Rocket's Red Glare' by Barbara Diener

For this edition, I spoke with artist Barbara Diener about her most recent project The Rocket’s Red Glare. Here, she turns her critical lens onto the life of rocket scientists Wernher von Braun and Jack Parsons, whose stories weave in and out of...

Create! Magazine • 6th October 2020

Finding the “New Normal” in a Surreal World: An interview with Monica Loya

If you were to physically look how you feel emotionally right now—your outside appearance reflecting your inner psyche—how would you look? Would you be disappearing? Would your eyes be melting in frustration? Or would your face be lifting off your...

Create! Magazine • 6th October 2020

Interview with Arinze Stanley Ebgengwu

Each of Arinze’s drawings is evidence of an existence, revealing intimate portraits that show specific psychological states. His experience of being a Black, Nigerian man living in the state of the world comes through in his portraits, as they reflect...