Christin Couture: CD Cover Art, Painter, Illustrator

Working proof for TagYerit's CD Tubeman: Feb. 99

When Christin had a gallery show featuring her Tubeman series, it inspired songwriters Rich and Flo to write the title song for their second CD Tubeman. The "expansive seas with the relaxed figures adrift" fired their imaginations. The challenge was to duplicate the same perplexing conflicts created by the painted scenes. Can one live in a state of reckless abandon and still attain a condition of fulfillment? Having succeeded in writing a song with no more answers than the painting offers, it was only natural that we asked Christin, the original source of inspiration, to collaborate on the CD art. Tube Man

Detail showing closeup of Christin's painting for TagYerit's CD Heavy Construction

When we enlisted the help of artist Christin Couture for our first CD Heavy Construction, we already knew that we would be using the photo of the oak gargoyle that we had carved for another project. It was something we had made that we were proud of, and it was the perfect shape AND we already had the photo. (Little did it occur to us, that combining this particular gothic image along with the title "Heavy Construction" would give the unwary consumer the impression that we could be a heavy metal band.)

Christin's challenge was to create a world within the mouth of our gargoyle; a construction site from another time and place. Due to her understanding of our natures, she was able to capture the essence of a dream that Flo and I might have had.

Biography:
Christin Couture has exhibited nationally and internationally for 20 years. Her work is known for being figurative, sensual, evocative, and wry, with a meticulous attention to detail. Lisa Nicol Peters of ARTS Magazine wrote, “(Couture’s) paintings have haunting qualities that grip as they delight.”

Christin Couture has also written and illustrated two children’s books, THE HOUSE ON THE HILL, and A WALK IN THE WOODS, both published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Couture is a native of western Massachusetts, now living in Shelburne Falls.

Christin Couture’s work has been reviewed in Art in America, ARTS Magazine, Art New England, and is included in numerous private and public collections. Her shows include solo exhibitions at Monique Knowlton Gallery, NYC; Galeria Arvil, Mexico City, and group exhibitions at Hecksher Museum, NY; Staemfli Gallery, NYS and PS 122

She has a BFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, studied at Brooklyn Museum Art School, The Art Student’s League of New York, and in Italy. She has received fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Foundation Karolyi, and the Millay Colony.

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