Christine Palamidessi

Christine Palamidessi explores the imprint of time, history, and mind on the interaction of materials, as experienced in myth and the body. “I develop visuals based on fragmentation," she says. “Then I reassemble, pushing the conversation to the viewer's current experience, unfolding sensations of completeness within the incomplete."

She has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is in collections in France, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Taiwan, Italy, and the United States. She has received the Barbara Demming Women's Award and the Urban Arts Award. Her public art memoir "Grandmothers" is etched on a granite monolith in Boston.

Palamidessi studied with Italian cartapesta and mask makers in Lecce and Venice, becoming adept at the techniques she uses for her current work.