Christine Angel (Christy, or/and Angel) is an pluridisciplinary artist who works with languages and Nature in her academic, design and composition work.

She is a Suisse and an American citizen, raised by MIT and Harvard educated Global Consultant parents and Grandma (Radcliffe), and nannies of varying ethnic backgrounds from France, West Indies, Africa, Britian and Asia.

At age 5, CA began in violin and piano at New England Conservatory of Music. She has perfect pitch and synesthesia, and was taught by many of the kind department heads and teachers of the prep and college level of NEC.  In her young adolescence, she worked with Macarthur fellow Ran Blake (3rd stream, film noir) on ear training.  She also was an All-American lacrosse player, played soccer, and trained in long distance and track (running), competing in the Junior Olympics. At the Winsor School, she was the recipient of the Blue Ribbon National Ancient Greek Award, studied latin, and was in the Small Chorus (singing).

Accepted early to Princeton University, she began on a medical path in the Pre-Med Bachelor of Sciences direction; later, switched to the Bachelor of Arts direction to integrate spanish and music. She played Varsity D-1 Lacrosse and Soccer for several years until she had to take medical leave from Princeton diagnosed with Crohn's disease. In her time off, she healed in California and Australia using gentler, more natural methods and was operated on successfully and continues to handle the illness (auto immune). Switching from competitive athletics to fashion modeling, Christy has performed and modeled in Europe and America. She performed in the opening of the AL Pacino movie "Simone" and she was an independant artist of the year (discmakers) in 2003.   

In 2003 Angel continued modeling, helping the entrance of new Swiss fashion to NYC. Delightfully, the DVD on Swiss Fashion Design is sold now at the Pompidou centre in Paris. She has been an advocate of the finesse (and sometime mis-understood) careful quality of Swiss fashion design highlighted beside (and with) French and Italian design and how the architecture of the défilé spaces are performance spaces just like in other arts (stage, auditorium). She is part of the Swiss Design group

http://www.fashionshow.ch/vP/designers.php?opage=1

Her research has to do with the French and Italian languages, literature, music and design as the back bones within fashion structure; architecture and film research aiding story telling; exploring the possibilities of cross over/intersection in design spaces; and she has used her music on défilés(runways) in Paris, France as well as modeling on them. 

In 2004 she was asked to sign a record, publishing and modeling contract by Chris Blackwell, Founder of Island Records, and mentored by the rock n roll hall of famer in Jamaica.  She sang, wrote, produced, composed and played all the instruments on her songs, and she has signed no contract giving away rights and has not released them yet, except on CD Baby. This is part of her graduate work to release previously un-released materials. 

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/christy3

Christine instead returned to Princeton in 2005, combining music, astrophysics, writing, and the french language together, creating a cross departmental thesis in astrophysics and music at Princeton in 2006 with an installation/performance piece in Taplin Auditorium. She completed her degree with cherished music advisor Scott Burnham,then Chair of the Department. She began the (unfinished) work on a new set of Modes (musical) based on planetary algorhythms, and short term created an "orbit" Thesis layering all her pieces in classifications according to mood, sound, instruments, theory and content. She created an installation piece on stage combining mode, design, footage documentary footage shot in Jamaica, London and Los Angeles (not released yet), film screen, dance, electric violin and grand piano, plus a small, artistic film mettrage un-cut "Lover Lover", advised by film professors Su Friedrich.  Keith Sanborn, Michael Pratt(Performance), and Toni Morrison, Emeritus, (Atelier "Bodies of Evidence") have been integral professors in the development and encouragement of her pluridisciplinary talents and in her use them humanistically.

Her thesis also had support of the Astrophysics department where she was advised by Ed Belbruno in astrophysics with side projects in fine art oil painting.

After graduation she was awarded the Music Stipend Performance award in 2006. she studied first at La Sorbonne in Paris, while had some time re-dealing with her health, and afterwards in the Atelier Chardon Savard, receiving a Masters degree in Pret à Porter Feminin in 2009.  She has independantly studied intensively, researching extensively in film,  mode, architecture, photography, music, and intensive language study. During this she began also modeling for Paris Photographic Institute (Spéos). She has been exhibited in black and white and color photography each year 2007, 2008 and 2009 in Paris in various books and galleries. She immersed herself in french as a means of expression linguistically more deeply, depicting multi-language within design, music and writing directly related to her Doctoral, and is in train of creating several collections in Paris based on Nature french& italian language and music.

Sensitive to people and animals, and the most happy reading a book, being in Nature, modeling some rare installation haute couture piece, in an academic library, writing creatively and scientific, exploring the ways french italian and english can be used together, Christy works with painting,photography, spaces, prose and design in construction of mental, physical and emotional architecture.  She is interested in researching past trends, in creating and building spacially new and "liberal" concepts in language, design, composition, music, modes, words, movement, stories, fabric (etc).

 

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