MARIA CRISTINA JADICK
  • Maria Cristina "Cristy" Jadick
  • Exhibitions
    • Artist Statement / Into Resilience >
      • Into Resilience
    • Artist Statement- Exitium >
      • Furious Flow, Drought and Fire >
        • Furious Flow etc.-Details
        • Furious Flow, Drought and Fire-Video
      • Requiem for a Toxic Deluge >
        • Requiem for a Toxic Deluge-Details
        • Requiem for a Toxic Flow-Video
    • Artist Statement-Wall-installation >
      • Wall
    • Artist Statement/ Extreme Water Mystery Sand >
      • Installations/ Extreme Water Mystery Sand
      • Sculpture-installation/ Photography/ Video
    • Artist Statement/ Coming Home Leaving >
      • Sculptures/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Mixed Media/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Installations/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Artist Book/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Prints/ Coming Home Leaving
    • Artist Statement/ Intervals >
      • Balseros: Freedom Flotilla installation/ Intervals
      • Woeful Wake installation/ Intervals
      • Stocked Motivation: Now and Later installation/ Intervals
      • Hope and a Prayer installation / Intervals
    • Artist Statement/ Fourteen >
      • The Price of Oil $94.375 How Many More? instalation/ FOURTEEN
    • Artist Statement/ Ready to Rumble? >
      • Ready to Rumble? installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Sovereign installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Steak Night: Marinate, Tenderize and Grill installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Jerry's Butcher's Coat or U.S.D.A. Prime, INSP'D & P'S'D installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Strategic Toss installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Mixed Media Drawings/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Football Sculpture Series/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Grilling Meat/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Iraq Steak/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Prints/ Ready To Rumble?
    • Artist Statement/ Irrevocable >
      • Irrevocable installation/ Irrevocable
    • Artist Statement/ Audible Silence/Silencio Sonoroso >
      • Audible Silence installation/ Audible Silence Silencio Sonoroso
      • Artist Book/ Audible Silence
    • Artist Statement/ Connection Disconnection >
      • Connection Disconnection installation/ Connection Disconnection
    • Review/ Cultural Bodies >
      • Mixed Media Paintings/ Cultural Bodies
      • Mixed Media/ Cultural Bodies
      • Prints/ Cultural Bodies
  • Projects
    • Warning Arctic Freeze, Power Grid Fail / Artist Statement >
      • Warning: Arctic Freeze , Power Grid Fail, 2022
    • Compenetrate/ Artist Statement >
      • Compenetrate/ Compenetrate
    • Backdrop- Ilium / Artist Statement
    • Artist Statement/ As American As Mom and Apple Pie >
      • As American As Mom and Apple Pie
      • Installation/ As American As Mom And Apple Pie
    • Artist Statement/ Play Ball >
      • Play Ball - Installation
    • Displacement
    • Retablos
    • Prints: Bosnia: Soul Survivor Series
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • India: Arches, Pillars, Monuments and Doorways, 2011
    • India: Patterns, Textures and Details, 2011
    • Skyscraper Abstractions Houston 2000
    • Ruby's Wigs
    • American Apple Pies
    • Taos, NM: Twilight, Sunset, Landscape and Abstraction, 2013
    • Bare Trees
    • Looming Weather Front 2013
    • Cloud Seeding?
    • San Antonio Mini Twilightscapes 2013
    • Houston Twilightscapes
  • ABOUT
    • ARTIST STATEMENT
    • BIO
    • COLLECTORS
    • CV-RESUME
    • PRESS/PUBLICATIONS >
      • Glasstire Top 5 in TX / Feb 3, 2022
      • Glasstire Online Texas Art Magazine Glasstire Counts down the top five art events in Texas this week.
      • Slow Art: Surpik Angelini’s Serene Privte Kunsthalle in Montrose Offers a Temple to Contemplation and Activism (PDF) | Paper City
      • The IUPLR and History of Houston's Latin Art Now! Conference/ Houston History Magazine
      • Latino Art Now! Shines Light on Talent. Houston Chronicle 3/3/2019
      • Texas Sculpture Group-2012 Interior Exhibition, Curated by Phillip King, San Antonio Art Magazine by Haydee Munoz
      • 2012 Texas Sculpture Group Interior Exhibition Curated by Phillip King
  • News/Contact info
Picture Photograph by Bill Olive, The Houston Chronicle, 2010.
BIO
Maria Cristina “Cristy” Jadick
b.1957, Pittsfield, MA, USA
 
    Exploring cultural identity the human spirit and socio-political themes, Artist Maria Cristina "Cristy" Jadick incorporates photography, video, painting, printmaking and performance in what results in compelling, conceptual,
research-based projects.  Incorporating found objects and bricolage into her work, Jadick further connects her viewers to a sense of place.  Her projects range from large, mixed-media, photo-lithographic prints or paintings on paper and canvas to sizable, performative, interactive tableau that integrate photographs and sewn, painted, baked and printed elements. 
 
    Jadick earned her B.A. from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA and pursued Art & Social Sciences studies at the Transart Foundation-Houston, TX (with Surpik Angelini and Abdel Hernandez,) The Glassell School-MFA Houston, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, and The Johns Hopkins University- Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.

     Her artistic career spans over 25 years, with exhibitions at the Fotofest Biennial, Bronx Latino Art Biennial, Museums in the USA, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil, at numerous galleries, alternative spaces, public spaces and corporations.
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​    Jadick has received several prestigious artist development grants from Creative Capital (NYC) and DiverseWorks Art Space.  She has served on the Artist Board at DiverseWorks from 2013-2014. Cristy Jadick is based in Houston, Texas where she lives with her husband and 2 sons.  She enjoys traveling, skiing, reading, gardening and singing.


  • Maria Cristina "Cristy" Jadick
  • Exhibitions
    • Artist Statement / Into Resilience >
      • Into Resilience
    • Artist Statement- Exitium >
      • Furious Flow, Drought and Fire >
        • Furious Flow etc.-Details
        • Furious Flow, Drought and Fire-Video
      • Requiem for a Toxic Deluge >
        • Requiem for a Toxic Deluge-Details
        • Requiem for a Toxic Flow-Video
    • Artist Statement-Wall-installation >
      • Wall
    • Artist Statement/ Extreme Water Mystery Sand >
      • Installations/ Extreme Water Mystery Sand
      • Sculpture-installation/ Photography/ Video
    • Artist Statement/ Coming Home Leaving >
      • Sculptures/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Mixed Media/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Installations/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Artist Book/ Coming Home Leaving
      • Prints/ Coming Home Leaving
    • Artist Statement/ Intervals >
      • Balseros: Freedom Flotilla installation/ Intervals
      • Woeful Wake installation/ Intervals
      • Stocked Motivation: Now and Later installation/ Intervals
      • Hope and a Prayer installation / Intervals
    • Artist Statement/ Fourteen >
      • The Price of Oil $94.375 How Many More? instalation/ FOURTEEN
    • Artist Statement/ Ready to Rumble? >
      • Ready to Rumble? installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Sovereign installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Steak Night: Marinate, Tenderize and Grill installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Jerry's Butcher's Coat or U.S.D.A. Prime, INSP'D & P'S'D installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Strategic Toss installation/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Mixed Media Drawings/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Football Sculpture Series/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Grilling Meat/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Iraq Steak/ Ready to Rumble?
      • Prints/ Ready To Rumble?
    • Artist Statement/ Irrevocable >
      • Irrevocable installation/ Irrevocable
    • Artist Statement/ Audible Silence/Silencio Sonoroso >
      • Audible Silence installation/ Audible Silence Silencio Sonoroso
      • Artist Book/ Audible Silence
    • Artist Statement/ Connection Disconnection >
      • Connection Disconnection installation/ Connection Disconnection
    • Review/ Cultural Bodies >
      • Mixed Media Paintings/ Cultural Bodies
      • Mixed Media/ Cultural Bodies
      • Prints/ Cultural Bodies
  • Projects
    • Warning Arctic Freeze, Power Grid Fail / Artist Statement >
      • Warning: Arctic Freeze , Power Grid Fail, 2022
    • Compenetrate/ Artist Statement >
      • Compenetrate/ Compenetrate
    • Backdrop- Ilium / Artist Statement
    • Artist Statement/ As American As Mom and Apple Pie >
      • As American As Mom and Apple Pie
      • Installation/ As American As Mom And Apple Pie
    • Artist Statement/ Play Ball >
      • Play Ball - Installation
    • Displacement
    • Retablos
    • Prints: Bosnia: Soul Survivor Series
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • India: Arches, Pillars, Monuments and Doorways, 2011
    • India: Patterns, Textures and Details, 2011
    • Skyscraper Abstractions Houston 2000
    • Ruby's Wigs
    • American Apple Pies
    • Taos, NM: Twilight, Sunset, Landscape and Abstraction, 2013
    • Bare Trees
    • Looming Weather Front 2013
    • Cloud Seeding?
    • San Antonio Mini Twilightscapes 2013
    • Houston Twilightscapes
  • ABOUT
    • ARTIST STATEMENT
    • BIO
    • COLLECTORS
    • CV-RESUME
    • PRESS/PUBLICATIONS >
      • Glasstire Top 5 in TX / Feb 3, 2022
      • Glasstire Online Texas Art Magazine Glasstire Counts down the top five art events in Texas this week.
      • Slow Art: Surpik Angelini’s Serene Privte Kunsthalle in Montrose Offers a Temple to Contemplation and Activism (PDF) | Paper City
      • The IUPLR and History of Houston's Latin Art Now! Conference/ Houston History Magazine
      • Latino Art Now! Shines Light on Talent. Houston Chronicle 3/3/2019
      • Texas Sculpture Group-2012 Interior Exhibition, Curated by Phillip King, San Antonio Art Magazine by Haydee Munoz
      • 2012 Texas Sculpture Group Interior Exhibition Curated by Phillip King
  • News/Contact info