ABOUT CHRISTA SORAUF
I started my art career as soon as I could hold a crayon and would sit with my mother as she would paint and teach me how to draw. In high school, I took my academics in the morning and studied art and painting at The Milwaukee Art Museum in the afternoon.
I graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. Upon graduating, I was hired as an art director at EP + Co., and eventually became associate creative director.
I started my own art and design firm in 1996 and launched a stationery and gift ware company in 2006. After three fun and fabulous years in the business, including an appearance on a NBC reality show, I sold my company and became a licensed artist and designer. I have designed exclusive product collections for Target, American Greetings, Hallmark, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Swoozies, DesignDesign, Inc. and received more than 100 awards for my design work.
Once our son started college, I resumed my painting career. As a creative artist based in Greenville, South Carolina, I strive to show that art is not only a medium for visual pleasure but also for sustainable design. Living in the former “Textile Capitol of the World”, my work often starts with fragments of fabric or leftover scraps from my old palettes, canvases and interior design projects. My primary goal as an artist is to encourage anyone who may connect with one of my paintings is to take a step in closer, and then another, and explore the many layers and dimensions of color that compose a single image of artwork.
EDUCATION
University of South CarolinaHonors College: Summa Cum LaudeBaccalaureus Atrium et Scientiae • International Business• Studio Art • FrenchEXPERIENCE
EP + Co. 1990 to 1996
Full-Service Creative Agency
• Art Director
• Associate Creative Director
Thinking Cap, Inc. 1996 to Present
Product Design, Branding & Licensed Artist Agency
• Founder
• Creative Director
Duo Design Studio 2012 to Present
Full-Service, Luxury Interior Design Firm
• Founder
• Creative Director
EXHIBITION
AMERICAS MART, Licensed Artist
& Designer — 2006 to Present
Zapow Art Gallery — 2006 to 2009
Pendleton Art Gallery — 2006 to 2009
Duo Design Studio — 2012 to Present
Rose Ball — 2015
Greenville Little Theatre 2022
Open Studios 2023
