Christina Bridges Glover (b. 1995) is a Fort Worth–based sculpture artist whose practice explores the cyclical and perennial nature of PTSD through mirrored surfaces, symbolic imagery, and immersive spatial forms. Working out of a private studio at Art Tooth Studios in Fort Worth’s Near Southside district, they construct memory palaces—fantastical, reflective environments where light, repetition, and organic motifs evoke the looping rhythms of trauma and healing. Drawing from the stylistic influence of Art Nouveau, both for its reverence for natural forms and its role in ushering in new ways of thinking, their work reimagines the lily as a symbol of resilience, recurrence, and the quiet power of survival.
Christina, set to graduate in Fall 2025, is currently pursuing a BFA in Studio Art: Sculpture with a minor in Art History at the University of North Texas. They also work as a sculpture lab assistant, supporting students with technical processes as they bring their own sculptural visions to life. Since returning to UNT in 2022, Christina has been named to the President’s List every semester, reflecting their academic excellence and dedication to their practice.
Their work has been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout North Texas, including 500X Gallery, Arts Fort Worth, the Greater Denton Arts Council, The Eclektica, SPARK! Dallas, and the Paul Voertman Gallery. Nationally, Christina’s work was included in a scholarship exhibition at the UAB Art Lab Gallery in Birmingham, Alabama. Looking ahead, they are slated for two solo exhibitions in 2025: one at Art Tooth’s installation space on South Main in Fort Worth, and another at the Cora Stafford Gallery in October.
Christina has received multiple awards and scholarships in recognition of their artistic and academic excellence. In 2024, they were awarded the prestigious Dianne Komminsk Scholarship from the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance, which led to an artist talk and aforementioned exhibition at the UAB Art Lab Gallery in Birmingham, Alabama. That same year, they received two competitive scholarships from the University of North Texas, which fully funded a study abroad experience to attend and research the Venice Biennale in Italy. In 2023, Christina was honored with the Excellence in Foundations Scholarship from UNT’s College of Visual Arts and Design for outstanding achievement in foundational studio coursework.
Christina’s artistic journey began with early studies in Communication Design at the University of North Texas from 2014 to 2015, laying the groundwork for nearly a decade of experience in graphic design. Over the years, they have held various design roles, most notably serving as the in-house graphic designer for the Pride Alliance and the Multicultural Center—two offices within UNT’s Division of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access—where they worked until the centers closed in 2023.
In addition to their visual arts practice, Christina is also a trained makeup artist. After completing makeup school in 2018, they worked extensively throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth area, with their most active years spanning through 2021. Their most distinguished role was serving as lead makeup artist for the American Baroque Opera Company, contributing to productions such as Dido and Aeneas and Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Christina has also led a variety of makeup workshops and classes at the University of North Texas and Texas Wesleyan University, covering topics such as drag makeup, theatrical stage makeup, and confidence-building makeup workshops.
I create fantastical, monochrome mirrored sculptures to build memory palaces—spaces that let viewers step inside the experience of PTSD. Lilies and time reappear in my work as symbols of the disorder’s perennial nature: beauty, decay, hidden struggles, and rebirth. Like the lilies in my yard, I’ve outlived what was expected. My art is how I tell that story—of pain, survival, and memory.
The lily serves as a central and enduring symbol in my work. In my backyard, lilies planted by my grandparents more than thirty years ago continue to bloom each spring, long beyond their expected lifespan. I see in them the same perseverance I’ve found in myself—quiet survival through unseen conditions. Their perennial return mirrors PTSD’s own rhythm: moments of dormancy, sudden emergence, slow growth, and eventual re-blossoming.
Stylistically, I draw on the flowing forms and organic motifs of Art Nouveau, not only for its visual alignment with the natural world but also for its historical significance. As a movement marking the dawn of modernism, Art Nouveau represents a turning point—a cultural shift toward new ways of seeing and thinking. I adopt it as a framework for reimagining my relationship to trauma, using it to express both a closeness to nature and a desire to reconstruct how PTSD is understood and felt. I embrace the style to communicate my PTSD diagnosis: not as a fixed identity, but as something evolving, cyclical, and transformative.
I use mirrored surfaces as both material and metaphor. Through laser engraving, I etch intricate, organic patterns onto the surface, transforming each mirror into a reflective portal. When illuminated, these engraved forms refract light, casting ephemeral projections onto surrounding walls—ghostly images that shift and echo the original design. This interplay between reflection and projection allows the work to exist in multiple dimensions at once, creating layered visual experiences that blur the boundary between viewer and object. These pieces function as “monochromatic memory palaces”—immersive environments devoid of color and suspended in soft lighting, inviting the viewer into a space where past and present coexist. The mirror doesn’t just reflect the body—it reflects the inner world of memory, emotion, and transformation.
-Christina Bridges Glover
For contact/inquiries contact me at
brartglo@gmail.com
or my linked social media.
Studio visits are available by appointment only.
