Christine Lafuente

Christine Lafuente has long been drawn to the water’s edge, where the surface below reflects both the distant horizon and the sky overhead.  During the summer, she paints en plein air along the rocky coast of Maine, working through shifting weather, tides, fog, and brilliant sunlight. Shadows, dust, fog, mist, and extreme sunlight provide aesthetic phenomena that both create and destroy form. The resulting paintings hover between representation and abstraction, grounded in observation, yet shaped by the instability of what is seen. Lafuente holds a Certificate in Painting and Printmaking from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she was awarded the Louis S. Ware Memorial Scholarship for European Travel, and an MFA from Brooklyn College. Her achievements include a major exhibition through the Fleisher Challenge Competition and a 2023 grant from the Schaevitz Foundation. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.