Christina Sorace MacKinnon

Christina Sorace MacKinnon creates distinct moments charged with movement, respite, and organized chaos. With contrasting opacities of colour, lyrical marks, and patterns, her energetic paintings are a cacophony of layers. Amid created tensions of overlapping shapes, labyrinths, and seemingly colliding, winding pathways, MacKinnon searches for self-knowledge, harmony, and resolve. Through her painting process, she feels the connection between self-identity and the various effects that undiagnosed ADHD has had throughout her life, especially as a woman. MacKinnon navigates and traverses her way around the canvas, forming a dialogue with elements that appear to struggle against each other yet coexist harmoniously. A sensation of congestion and investigation experienced in her work correlates to her interest in dismantling narratives that have impacted her childhood and coexist with the challenges women face in a patriarchal world. She refers to her paintings as visual stories of how she reckons with these emotions and her relationship with herself and the world.