About Cristina Biaggi
As an artist Cristina Biaggi’s work is both realist and abstract. Her sculptures, some commissioned classical portraits cast in bronze, seek to portray the subject’s personality – their soul – in one moment in time. As Chris McGrath, Director of Sales at Pollich Tallix Foundry says, “Cristina Biaggi is one of the most talented figurative sculptors we have worked for. She is highly professional and extremely interested in the precise conveyance of her original detail throughout the casting process. She skillfully captures the essence of her subject in her art, whether the subject is an adult, child or animal. Her work is truly beautiful.” Biaggi’s collages – both big commissioned pieces and smaller works – are expressionistically abstract and reflect a mood or feeling. Large commissioned pieces such as The River, Ocean, and Mountain 24 feet x 9 feet) were created on canvas, smaller works on paper using india ink, house paint or fine art acrylic paint.
As an author Cristina Biaggi, Ph.D is a respected and recognized scholar and author on the subject of the Great Goddess, Prehistory and the origin and impact of patriarchy on contemporary life. To her books and her presentations, she brings knowledge rooted in her studies of the classics, art and art history, archaeology, literature, and languages acquired at Vassar, the University of Utah, Harvard and NYU. For five decades, she has conducted ongoing, in-depth research that has broadened and deepened her passion and abiding interest in prehistory and its effects on our lives today. Dr. Biaggi has written four books: Habitations of the Goddess, Footsteps of the Goddess, The Rule of Mars: Readings on the Origins History and Impact of Patriarchy, and Activism into Art into Activism into Art. She has also published and presented a number of articles on prehistory and women’s spirituality.
Dr. Biaggi has spoken on a variety of subjects at the Smithsonian Institute, The Glastonbury Conference (England), the Fourth Women’s Conference in Beijing, and in New York City, at the American Museum of Natural History, at the Brooklyn Museum, at the 92nd Street Y and the Society of Women Geographers.
Among some of the papers she has presented are:
Inspiration of Activism in Art,” Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist art at the Brooklyn Museum
“My Life in Art and Patriarchy,” Luksfera Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
“The Priestess Figure of Malta,” World Archaeology Conference, Southampton, England
“Myth, Monument and Matristic Societies,” Woman and Earth Conference, Turkey, and The Archaeological Conference, Greece.
“The Web: The Pattern that Connects – Its Paleolithic and Neolithic Manifestations and its Importance Today,” Third Archaeological Conference, Bulgaria