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Christine Aria, a painter from San Francisco, is the November Artist-in-Residence with the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Visual Arts Program.

Aria’s intensive representations of the figure range in size from larger-than-life-size portraits to small paintings on curled scraps and translucent papers.

“Psychological and physiological states of being are the focus of my work,” Aria said. “My paintings specifically center around vulnerability and ‘not-knowing,’ in-between experiences. In making work that often focuses on the feminine form, I celebrate my own vulnerabilities and desires, st...