Christa Stephens is an autistic artist whose abstract paintings and mixed-media works explore systems of diversity and interdependence. Utilizing a visual language of geometric forms, she creates intricate, hard-edge abstractions that fuse personal narrative with the emblematic qualities of the southwestern desert where she has lived most of her life. Christa holds a bachelor’s degree in music education and bases her approach to visual art on the structures inherent in musical theory and composition. Imbued with discordant beauty, her artworks integrate layers of pattern and pigment with formal design elements, describing her perceptual experiences through atypical adjacencies and abstracted metaphors.
Christa resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she maintains a multifaceted creative practice and advocates strength-based narratives for herself and others on the autism spectrum. Her works have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and contemporary art centers throughout the southwestern United States.