About

Christie Serpentine is an interdisciplinary artist and landworker whose practice explores the relationship between personal mythology, the natural world, and the forces that shape our becoming. Through sculpture, glass, sensory experiences, and material alchemy, she investigates the tensions that live between our inner and outer worlds, and the inherited circumstances that shape our understanding of what is possible.

Born and raised in the inner city of Philadelphia, Serpentine's history unfolds between the duality of urban streets and wild landscapes. Her work is informed by years of ecological labor across North America, from building trails in the Grand Canyon and constructing fish passes in Alaska, to growing food & medicinal flowers in the high desert of New Mexico. These experiences have shaped a material language of labor, care, and symbolism, rooted in the physical and emotional act of constructing belonging where none was provided. Her earth work practice extends this inquiry through an intimate collaboration with the land, where new lineage is cultivated by finding guidance in the more-than-human world through its capacity to reveal alternative ways of connection and being.

Serpentine’s practice is a mirror for where the soul's lights and shadows collide; ripe with beauty and a twinkle of hope, yet left with a tinge of grief from the void that inevitably lingers. She examines this duality through fragile forms, conceptual contradictions, and ritual acts of renewal and release. Her work lingers at the threshold between destruction and creation, where fear and desire are allowed to coexist. She approaches this state of tension as a raw and tender space to inhabit, rather than a wound to escape. It is here that she reclaims the authority of being the architect and the magician, forging worlds that both celebrate and grapple with womanhood and the endless complexities of being human. Her work offers a place for the viewer to encounter the glory of their own contridictions, finding enchantment in what remains unresolved, and to reach beyond the limitations of what we have come to believe in pursuit of truths not yet imagined.