Awards & Publications

VENUE

Orange Art Assn. (2012)

ArtSlant (October 2011)

ArtSlant (June 2011)

ArtSlant (March 2011)

ArtSlant (January 2011)

ArtSlant (November 2010)

ArtSlant (October 2010)

ArtSlant (June 2010)

Huntington Beach Art League Fall Show (2010)

Huntington Beach Art League Fall Show (2010)

ArtSlant Limited Collection Edition (November 2010)

Hi Tide Exhibition (December 2010)

(Crystal Cove Cottage)

AWARD

2nd Place/3D Category

Showcase Winner/Round #6

Showcase Winner/Round #3

Showcase Winner/Round #2

Showcase Winner/Round #1

Showcase Winner/Round #6

Showcase Winner/Round #4

Showcase Winner/Round #3

Honorable Mention

2nd Place/Pen & Ink Category

Selected Artist

Featured Artist

(Hale Kawakami)

ART COMPOSITION

(Crystal Cove Cottage)

(The Shake Shack)

(Punxsutawney Barn in Winter)

(Hale Kawakami)

(Crystal Cove Cottage)

(Maui Cottage)

(Fanfare)

(The Red Octagonal Barn)

(The Red Octagonal Barn)

(A Courtyard in Andalusia)

Various Compositions

Various Compositions

(Fanfare)

(The Shake Shack)

(Maui Cottage)

(The Red Octagonal Barn)

(Punxsutawney Barn in Winter)

PUBLICATIONS

Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University and Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Jan M. Ziolkoski's new book, The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume I: The Middle Ages, was released June 2018, featuring Christie's pointillism distillation of Jules Massenet's Le Jongleur de Notre Dame (2009) in the preface of his 566 page documentary:

From Our Lady’s Tumbler to The Jongleur of Notre Dame

The account of concern to us here has traveled under various aliases. The story is simplicity incarnate, but it also displays an astonishing plasticity. Most often, it has borne in English the titles Our Lady’s Tumbler and The Jongleur of Notre Dame. The two versions are closely related but not fungible. Many renderings of them have been deceptively simple in the number and nature of their narrative elements. The narrative can even be pruned at its barest minimum to the interior of a high-ceilinged Gothic church and a ball, by way of which the cover art to the program of an opera production summed up the whole narrative (see Fig. Pref.1 below).

Not even a single human being is present. Gothic is familiar to everyone who has traveled in Europe, the Americas, and many other places around the globe that were once gripped by European imperialism or tied to its national cultures. The principal elements of the style instantiate the gist of medieval Christianity: the pointed arch conjures up a monastery, a cathedral of Notre Dame, or both. By visual metonymy, the sphere evokes the juggler himself.

(A Courtyard in Andalusia)

Fig. Pref.1 Christie Grimstad, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, 2009. Ink pointillism, 28 × 35.6 cm. © Ken Fish. All rights reserved.

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2019