Christine Kerrick | visual storyteller
Her detailed technique bears some likeness to the painter Alphonse Mucha. Expressive eyes, descriptive poses and human interaction make the viewer forget he or she is looking at a painting. Instead they become involved in a story."
This relationship between viewer and subject might help explain Christine Kerrick's growing popularity as a published artist. Many of the works Christine has drawn and painted are already reproduced as cards, posters and in books. Future reproductions will include gift items, trading cards, graphic novels and hand-signed lithographs.
Christine was born in 1967 and grew up in rural Pennsylvania. From a young age, it was clear that her calling as an artist was sure. In high school she was awarded Saturday classes in anatomy at the prestigious Moore College of Art in Philadelphia. Her studies at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she earned her bachelor's degree in Illustration with a concentration in graphic design. Her degree requirements consisted of hours of anatomy drawing. This was the basis upon which she later refined her painting skills.
During her time at University of the Arts, Christine painted portraits of major-label musicians to promote their new releases at a national record store chain. Among the subjects were Robert Plant, Aerosmith, Guns N Roses, Elton John, Robert Palmer and many others, including former President George H. Bush.
Later she worked as a graphic designer in advertising, hospitality and other industries, which enabled her to take her illustration further by training her in the full range of publishing. Having dabbled in comic book illustration for years, she finally contributed to a few publications then, in 1998, published the first book in her original series, Empire.
Christine's award winning work has been shown in Philadelphia at Rising Star Gallery, Ferrell Ridge Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida and Unique Art Gallery in Las Vegas, Nevada. Annually she attends the San Diego Comicon, where her comic book Empire was first released.
Christine Kerrick is a friendly, outgoing woman with a quirky sense of humor. She is six feet two inches tall, right handed and of Irish descent. A devout Christian, Kerrick has a tremendous love and devotion for God and describes herself as richly blessed. Among those blessings are her parents George, a former Marine, and Doris, a registered nurse, who still reside in her childhood home in West Chester, Pennsylvania. She also has two younger sisters Jennifer, a corporate executive in Chicago, and Linda, a major and veteran pilot in the United States Marine Corps.
In 2004 Christine attended a three-week training in Forensic Facial Imaging at FBI Headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. Among the instructors were facial reconstruction pioneer Betty Pat Gatliff and composite sketch/facial reconstruction artist Karen T. Taylor, whose hands appear periodically on the hit tv series 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'. This training makes Christine one of a few in South Florida skilled at accurate composites and reconstruction from skeletal remains. This past year was the first arrest as a result of one of her composite sketches. "That's a powerful feeling, when you've helped get someone dangerous off the street just by drawing a picture."
Christine's favorite artistic endeavor is sketching. Many times a sketch turns into a larger finished piece, but sketching itself, she says, is freeing. Christine's drawings and paintings communicate deeply to viewers, providing warmth and comfort in a fast-paced often cold world. "If people can look at my work and be comforted and touched or think outside their own personal box, then I'm satisfied."
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