Featured Artist: Christine Hogg
About the artist
Featured Wear is thrilled to announce our first artist partnership for our Limited Edition Wear with Christine Hogg, a talented designer based in Fort Collins, Colorado. Christine's primary focus is on 2D media, and her art is a testament to her diverse experiences in the visual arts, language learning, travel, and education. Through these experiences, she has cultivated a profound love for people and a passion for open dialogue.
Christine's work has been featured in numerous galleries, including her solo exhibition, "(Re)humanization," at Art Lab in Fort Collins. This exhibition, held in July 2024, showcased her ability to confront and process personal experiences, highlighting themes of vulnerability and reconnection. We are excited to feature her work on this month's limited edition apparel.
The story told through the featured piece, "The Centering Rod," is one that resonates with many. You can find it hanging in Bas Bleu Theatre in Downtown Fort Collins now through June as part of a collaborative exhibition paired with the production, Another Medea.
Christine holds a BA from Hendrix College and an MAT from the University of Arkansas. Her extensive portfolio, including artwork and design projects, can be explored further at christinehogg.design.
For more insights and updates, follow Christine on Instagram at @christine.f.hogg.
The Centering Rod
This focal rod took shape mentally during my first month of living sober as I stabilized myself emotionally and physically.
Through this exercise I wanted to capture reverberations similar to those that I saw and felt in early recovery. As my self-worth and self-trust gradually grew, I was able to look at more stimuli in my life and decide whether my current responses to them were productive or healthy. Stimuli included temporary thoughts and feelings, dynamics with others, others' decisions made outside of my control, and temporary comforts. I could also see how ultimately they were not my strongest sources of stability and remembered that my guiding rod was formed from my intuition and sobriety.
To see many of the aspects in my life more clearly, as they stand relative to my focus and how things connect, has made it easier to sense a balance or when I feel off balance.
Through the process of this drawing, I aimed to respect the line, the intimacy of drawing, and the balance of the composition. Also, the challenge of executing the lighter strokes reminded me of the challenge of remaining self-compassionate when seeking to create and maintain a more balanced life.
Interested in purchasing The Centering Rod?
If you are interested in purchasing The Centering Rod, please use this form to contact Featured Wear and we will connect you with the artist.
You may also reach out to Christine on her website or Instagram: christinehogg.design or @christine.f.hogg.