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christine sajecki

Painting, Paper / Book / Illustration, Visual / Media

I work as a painter and a storyteller; my paintings reconsider my experiences and immediate environment, while my process records the story through excavation, burying and revelation, scarring and healing, and the accumulation of marks and colors.

About the Artist

Christine Sajecki is an artist practicing in Baltimore, Maryland. She mostly works in encaustic- a malleable and sculptural paint made of beeswax, pigment, damar resin, and other materials harvested from her environment. She works the surfaces with brushes, torches, gouges and blades. Sajecki brings this excavation and accretion of surface to other media and drawings through her process. Her work has been shown and collected across the United States and Europe, as well as published alongside poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. 

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This piece is part of a series that speaks about an ongoing instance of environmental pollution in my neighborhood. In June 2022, the red candelabra tower was illegally powerwashed, sending lead-contaminated red paint flakes all over Woodberry. As an artist, everyday seeking and paying close attention to color, I have been relentless in documenting the disaster and will continue until justice is restored. The painting here attempts to share the experience of staring at the ground every day, seeing and losing patterns in the traces of movements of weather and people, and the perverse, complicated sensation when a red chip is observed.
This piece is a celebration of those who clean up messes.
This piece is a celebration of my neighborhood and the funky yards that give Baltimore some of its charm.
One in the series that shares the experience of seeking pollution in order to remedy it.
This piece recalls my experience helping a friend through an environmental disaster, where the marsh in front of her home was being suffocated by the spartina husks we call wrack. The problem originated with the state approving an ill advised dock, and was remediated by artists getting in the water every full moon, and pushing the wrack out into the tide.
This piece is part of a series that speaks about an ongoing instance of environmental pollution in my neighborhood. In June 2022, the red candelabra tower was illegally powerwashed, sending lead contaminated red paint flakes all over Woodberry. As an artist, everyday seeking and paying close attention to color, I have been relentless in documenting the disaster and will continue until justice is restored. The painting here attempts to share the experience of staring at the ground every day, seeing and losing patterns in the traces of movements of weather and people, and the perverse, complicated sensation when a red chip is observed.