Christine Bourdette is a Portland, Oregon-based visual artist who maintains studio and public art practices. Her sculpture, drawings, and installations have historically commented on social, political, or simply human predicaments, often seasoned with compassion and humor. Her work of the last 15+ years has become informed by geologic features and fracturing earth, focusing primarily on the land as an uneasy topography.  The sporadic shifting of terrain and the earth’s singular and cumulative upheavals are, to her, metaphors for this uncertain era we inhabit. The three-dimensional vocabulary that she has cultivated over the course of a long career continues to incorporate a wide repertoire of materials, methods, and a dedication to craft.