Christine Gorbach
Biography

Christine Gorbach is a painter, photographer, filmmaker and teacher. She has shown her paintings in galleries throughout Northeast Ohio. She has led the Cuyahoga Falls art faculty in group shows and most recently undertook a one-woman show at Stark Technical College in Canton, Ohio. In February, 2004 she travels to New York City for a series of gallery appearances.

Gorbach was featured in a 1996 exhibition entitled "Two Painters" at The Contemporary Arts Project in Summit County. In 1998, she exhibited abstract conceptual paintings and installations at a one-woman show at the Wolf School of Music in Stow, Ohio. In 1999 paintings by Gorbach were featured at the Agora Gallery in New York City. At that same time, a portion of the Hierarchy series was in a group show at the Akron Art Institute.

In September 2001, a major show of Gorbach's works took place on the Kent State Campus.

Gorbach earned a Master of Art degree from Kent State University in 1997 and chairs the Art Department at Cuyahoga Falls High School.

In 2000, Gorbach started a collaboration with composer, Gary Lee Nelson. Their first film, "Hierarchy," was was based on Gorbach's paintings and premiered at Oberlin College in November of that year.

In the spring of 2001, Gorbach and Nelson were asked to discuss their collaboration process as a part of the Cleveland Institute of Art "Sight and Sound" series. Gorbach's paintings and prints were hung at CIA in association with the lecture.

In March 2001, Gorbach and Nelson's films "Hierarchy", "Charitoo" and "Death and Transfiguration" were shown in a concert of "New Works" at Oberlin College and again in April at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.

 

"Hierarchy" was presented at the Electroacoustic Music Festival at the University of Florida at the end of March 2001 and again at the University of Toronto "Subtle Technology" conference in May 2001. Later in May, "Hierarchy" was the focus of Gorbach and Nelson's lecture about harmonic forms and generative systems in visual art at the Cleveland Artists Foundation gallery at the Beck Center for the Arts in Cleveland.

In September 2001, Gorbach had a major show at the Kent State Stark Campus. Gorbach and Nelson's films were shown as a part of a concert given by Nelson at Kent during September. A similar presentation was made at the Ohio Art Education Association Convention in November 2001. During the convention, OAEA sponsored a concert and film screening at the Cleveland Great Lakes Science Center.

 

"Death and Transfiguration" was chosen for the Light Plays Tricks Festival in Kingston, Ontario in October 2001 and all three films were screened at the New York Film and Video festival in February, 2002.

 
There was a screening of the films and a concert of Nelson's electronic music at The University of Akron School of Music in April 2002 as part of the New Arts Festival. At the same festival, Gorbach's paintings and prints were hung in the Projects Gallery at the Myers School of Art. The show included Hierarchy along with other new works. Gorbach and Nelson dicussed their collaborative methods during a lecture presented to students, faculty and guests.

 

 

 In October 2002, "Charitoo," was screened as part of the Akron YWCA "Take Back the Night" symposium. "Charitoo" is now showing at the online video magazine wigged.net and was screened in Oberlin at the OCEAn Festival of Ohio composers.

Gorbach is currently working on a new project which will include a series of painted boxed images.