Christiana Updegraff
Pronouns: She/Her
Lecturer
Fine Art
School of Art and Design
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
SDSU
Bio
Christiana E. Updegraff, a cross-discipline 3-dimensional artist, was born in 1979. She completed her M.F.A. at San Diego State University in 2011. She also received her B.F.A. in 2007 from Kent State University. Christiana has maintained her studio in Southern California for the last fifteen years. She has been creating and exhibiting work nationwide, as well as teaching Fine Art in higher education in Southern California.
Christiana’s current body of work is inspired by loss, corporeal deterioration, time, uncertainty, fear, and stagnation. She is particularly engaged with objects of human comfort in conjunction with imagery of emptiness and decay. She uses both Sculpture and traditional metalsmithing techniques in combination with non traditional materials to obscure the implications of her chosen media.
Education
- MFA (2011)
- BFA (2007)
Areas of Specialization
Sculpture, Jewelry and Metalsmithing
Courses
- Art 231
- Art 331
- Art 431
- Art 531
- Art 133