Lakeland Times June 28, 2011 .  "Inaugural HYMC Photography Exhibition on display June 4-27.  show will feature local photographers; opening reception June 11. ......"
Howard Young Medical Center. April 2011  "Auxiliary of HYMC welcomes Christine Alfery as fine art chairperson. ..... Christine Alfery, artist and art educator, recently joined the Auxilary of Howard Young Medical Center and will serve in this new role as the Fine Art Chairperson.

Northwoods Art Tour.  I paint abstract subject matter.  It changes from my own unique, imaginative marvels to common, ordered, statement or to motley complex wonderings every time people interact with my work.  ..... Christine states that the perpetual movement of creative imaginative wonderings is Divine. ....

News Of The North.  April 2011.  Editorial by Gay Scheffen.  Christine Alfery, an abstract impressionist painter with a passion. 

Wright Art Center. Beloit College. Beloit WI.  "She finds peace in this moment."

New Visions Gallery. Marshfield, WI.  "Christine Alfery holds a Master of Fine Art and a PhD minor in Contemporary Art History from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been an artist and educator all her life, ....."

Birmingham News September 2010. "Christine Alfery's gallery show is carefree, impulsive, colorful......"

Keweenawnow. Vertin Gallery, Michigan.   April 2011  "Her images seem to grow organically across the canvas in a palette than can only be described as the happiest of colors....."

By Julie Wroblewski of The Lakeland Times. Minocqua Wisconsin. August 19, 2011.

Lac du Flambeau artist Christine Alfery will show her artwork at three exhibitions this fall and much of it is themed around birds. "During the spring of this year, I started to put birds into some of my paintings.  As I looked back at the work I have done since the early spring, I realized I have done a whole series of works with birds in them - enough for an exhibition.
 Alfery said, "Kind of exciting. It wasn't planned, as most of my work is not planned, but very exciting.  The birds series will be scattered through out these three exhibitions.  The exhibitions and venues are as follows: "Colors." at the Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, Opening reception is Sept 30, 5-7 and on Oct 8, the center will hold The Art of Wine Reception. "Perpetual Motion," DeRicci Gallery Edgewood College, Madison. November 1-December 1.  The gallery reception will be Nov. 9, 4-6p.m. "Divine Inspirations," New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, Nov. 6- Dec. 30.  The gallery reception will be Nov. 6, 2-4.

            Alfery is the Howard Young Medical Center Art Gallery's fine art chairperson, exhibition chairperson for the Lakeland Art League an secretary of the Manito Art League.  She an her husband, Brad Alfery, moved to Lac du Flambeau 21.2 years ago after his retirement. Prior to the move, she was an art educator at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Her artwork, which is mostly water based painting done with her hands and tools other than brushes, is represented by galleries across the nation.

Best In Show.  Christine Alfery "Summer Grasses"  Mixed Media

Christine Alfery's piece "Summer Grasses" is an expressive take on the traditional still life/landscape painting motif.  Bright circles of color dance within deep black scrawls, while black and white stripes dart between drippy white washes.  The aggressive marks create dense pockets of activity and then die out into the white void.  The painting easily slips between abstraction and representation and then back, revealing new depths with each visit.  The evidence of the artist's hand is present throughout the piece, from frantic gestures to long finger swipes through the background.  The personal scale of the piece creates a one-to-one relationship with the viewer, confronting you as you stand before it.  I felt compelled to trace the artist's hand, retracing the record of activity.  The overall painting mixes a formal grace with direct application of the materials to create stunning and mature work.  "Summer Grasses" is my choice for Best in Show for tackling a traditional subject and imbuing it with a skillfully-executed and fresh perspective. 

Judge Scott Stullen, MFA

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

"Starry Nite"   April - 1st Place Richardson Invitational.

"This is an energetic, almost frenetic piece that evokes a feeling of unease. The artist is fully in control of the piece, in spite of it's buzzing, whirring activity.  The soft colors belie the "dangerous whimsy" of the piece."  Awards Juror, Ms. Marilyn Stasiak, Art Curator of the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin

Christine Alfery, Mixed Media Paintings, Monty Stabler Galleries, 1811 29^th Ave. South. Through September 28. by James R. Nelson The Birmingham News.

What a happy show this is!  Christine Alfery’s works are carefree, impulsive, vivacious, sometimes monochromatic, more often colorful, and always executed with a touch of humor.  A stroll through the gallery is like walking in an English garden, a place where colorful plants turn space into a freewheeling exploration of nature.

A trio of relatively small works, ‘Still life with pears,” “Still life with oranges” and “Still life with three green apples,” explode with bright colors.  “Fall grasses” have gay, loopy blobs of color scribbled over casual black stems.

“She rides her pony in the Memorial Day parade” erupts like a volcanic still life.  Orange and green and red blobs pour forth with all the colorful energy of a small town parade.  “Kites 1” and “!!” capture the flight and fitful soaring and dipping of kites on strings.  “Rolley  Rolley Rolley” is a monochromatic exercise that can suggest yarn balls or, with her use of white stripes and black lines, an outdoor clothesline in snowy winter with the fabrics snapping in the wind. 

Using the grisaille technique of shades of gray in “Nest !” and “Nest!!,” Alfery scribbles descriptions of two empty nests.  The first contains stone-like eggs, the other is empty with a soft feather resting near its perimeter.  These works inspire pensive contemplation and send the imagination into fantasies about wild birds in nature.

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Manito Art Show – 2009

Nancy Lamers, Professor of Art, Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

BEST OF SHOW

Christine Alfery –“Fish’n” – Watercolor

This award was the most difficult to choose because I had to select from two marvelous pieces by the same artist.  “Campfire” is equally compelling as a painting in a different medium.  “Campfire” was given an honorable mention, but it could just have well been best of show.  Ultimately, “Fish’n” was chosen for its playful use of the watercolor medium.  Christine experimented successfully with a broad array of media-handling techniques.  Her assured gesture, use of line and color to keep the viewer’s eyes actively moving across the surface, and contrast of transparent and opaque color masses resulted in a painting that both makes one think and is visually pleasurable.

HONORABLE MENTION

Christine Alfery – “Campfire” – Acrylic

Gesture, color and contrast unite to give the impression of the campfire.  Without a title to aid the viewer, the painting is just as fine.  Mark-making, dragging the tool energetically through paint, is a delightful kinesthetic experience for the viewer, surely as it was for the viewer while creating Light/dark contrast and textural changes, from barely noticeable to dynamic, add complexity.

Honorable Mention

“Spirits from the Sea”

Christine Alfery  .  Mixed Media