Christie Blizard‘s paintings have been on national television more than a dozen times in the past year. Millions of viewers in the US have seen her work on Good Morning America (GMA) and The Today Show, though they may not have realized that what they were seeing was contemporary painting. As part of her ongoing interest in devising alternative ways of making and displaying paintings, outside of conventional art contexts — from incorporating mud-wrestling into her process to spray-painting canvases strapped to her back while she takes hours-long walks — the San Antonio–based artist has been creating enigmatic text works to brandish in the backgrounds of the popular morning shows for the past year.
The Painter Infiltrating ‘Good Morning America’ and ‘The Today Show’
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