Christine Lee is an artist from Orcas Island in Washington state
Artist Christine Lee investigates the fragile architectures that shape our urban lives—its systems, its decay, and the traces it leaves behind. Her work emerges from the juxtaposition between precision and unpredictability: engineered curves and structural bands intersect with ink blooms, smudges, and the unruly drift of pigment. What results is a visual language that finds balance in the industrial and the organic.
Fragments of text, remnants of forms, and hints of bureaucratic markings surface throughout the compositions, not as legible messages but as artifacts. These partial signals hint at our daily infrastructure—postal routes, administrative processes, coded pathways—yet here they are fractured, ripped apart, and reimagined, suggesting dilapidated systems and eroding surfaces.
The monotype medium itself is central to the work’s conceptual force. A monotype is a one-of-a-kind print that exists in its own “unique state.” The process has an inherent unpredictability—ghost impressions, imperfect transfers, layered translucencies—which gives each piece depth and texture. Each print carries the memory of its making, the evidence of pressure, resistance, and chance.
Christine's printing press in her Orcas Island studio
SELECTED SHOWS
2026 Confluence - group show, The Wabash Project, Mt. Vernon, WA
2019 Personal View - feature artist, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
Impact - group show, Traumhaus Gallery, Snohomish, WA
20-year Members’ Retrospective - group show, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018 Hot Off the Press - feature artist, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
Untitled - feature artist, Orcas Island Library, Eastsound, WA
2017 Seattle Print Arts, Contemporary Hues - juried show, Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds, WA
COLLECTIONS
2016 Capital One, corporate collection, Seattle, WA
HONORS
2015 Blue Moon Brewing Co., 20th Anniversary exclusive Limited Edition 20 Artists 20 Labels
I was among 20 artists hand-picked from across the country to appear on labels of
Blue Moon Belgian White in celebration of this anniversary.