Observing intersections between skies and power lines, Krista Machovina finds meaning where the celestial and the human sphere appear to meet. In Machovina’s current exhibition, Entanglement Theory, these two elements take turns as figure or ground. The utility lines criss-crossing the sky both frame and stand between us and the infinite, creating a skyward game of cat’s cradle. 

The wires attempt to box up and tether the amorphous trying, just as Rogers and Hammerstein wrote, “to catch a cloud and pin it down.” These intersecting marks even recall language of the body: lifelines and love lines etched into the palm, mythologized maps of potential fates carried with us.

Although they interrupt the view of rolling clouds, the random matrix hints at means of communication, conduction of power, connection across space, and perhaps time. 

Quantum physics entanglement theory describes how once linked particles can maintain that link even at a distance and continue to affect one another. While outside of the physicists’ domain, connection over miles and years makes sense for anyone who has received an unexpected phone call from someone that had just crossed their mind. Ultimately in this exhibit, Machovina’s motifs of power lines and unbounded skies coalesce into visual representations of these intangible yet impactful intersections.

Krista Machovina is a Los Angeles–based artist whose oil paintings and mixed media works explore themes of resilience, relationship, and memory. Her work incorporates elements both natural and constructed to reflect back the emotional and psychological frameworks that shape human experience.

Machovina earned a BFA in Art Education from the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign and a MA in Art Therapy from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Since 2011, she has sustained an active studio practice alongside a consistent exhibition record, developing bodies of work that reflect long-term engagement with material, process, and perceptual inquiry.