CHRISTINA LADAS is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer, born and raised in New York. Growing up between the worlds of her Greek immigrant family and bohemian artists, there is a deep heritage of creativity. Mentored by her uncle, the late artist and sculptor Kosta Alex, his exhibits, friends, collectors, and Montparnasse studio planted the seeds of what was to come.
Cycles of art and life led to a career in the business of art, design, and product, a great variety of projects, collaborations, and working as a licensed artist for the international marketplace. Commissions for studio art and handmade objects kept a creative balance until the inevitable return to where those seeds were planted, the studio, the very heart and soul of the artist.
“Beginning a new piece is an unconscious process of sifting through layers... unearthing impressions, memories, imagery that may have been long forgotten but are remembered in the symbolic language of every mark, every mixing of color, every stroke of the brush, every fragment that becomes the image. I can be inspired by something sure or the faintest spark, working with different mediums, drawing or painting abstractly or figuratively. I may think I know the way, but there is a point of surrender, a crossing when the creation begins to lead. Right there, that moment. That is everything.”