Christine Barney has been under the influence and inspiration of modern artists following classic tradition in sculpture for her 25 years as a studio glass artist: Brancusi, Moore, and Noguchi. She apprenticed to Livio Seguso, in Venice, Italy, for two years in the 1980's, where she learned to sidestep Venetian jealousies, established rivalries, and traditional
male-dominated decisions, to achieve her own sculptural ideals in glass.
"My work today is based very deeply on truth to the material and its unique characteristics," she says.

Christine's work is now in the collection of the Corning Museum, has been displayed at the American Embassy in Moscow, was commissioned as The ArtPark Award presented to Harry Belafonte by NYS Council on the Arts and Governor Mario Cuomo. She is included in the books "Glass Art from Urban Glass", edited by Richard Wilfred Yelle, " and "Women Working in Glass", by Lucartha Kohler. Various issues of American Style, Vetro, New Glass Review, and the New York Times have included her work.

 Calling Bath her home town, she now lives and works in Jersey City, NJ. She is represented by several galleries nationally, and appears with us through the generosity of The Oxford Gallery in Rochester.