Because of her interest in learning to work with new materials, Christina Cushman Gersten searched for a way to unite her knowledge of mediums. In 2004, her digital composite skills formed as a likely progression of her skills, enabling her to characterize her abilities and awareness in a unique form. Christina’s particular use of combining so many disciplines of traditional and contemporary mediums is one that is uncommon; although, its creation seems natural, as she is able to join her skills in painting, photography and digital art. This recent series illustrates a dynamic process of creating art.

Christina studied oil painting in Florence, Rome, Paris, San Miguel de Allende, as well as in the United States with a B.A. cum laude in Fine Art and Art History from Tulane University in New Orleans. Christina’s development of photography skills spurred out of love for the optical, which lead her to USC School of Cinema/Television, where she received her M.F.A. in production in 1996. The next eight years, she dedicated herself to the arts, producing several hundred works, including mostly oil paintings and charcoals, sculpture, celluloid and digital photography, glass art, printmaking, motion picture ‘art’ films, screenplays and poetry.