Paula Christenson is an Argentinian-American painter who works between Salt Lake City, Utah and Houston, Texas. She values emotional freedom over intellectualism and realism in her art. Though she started as an elementary school teacher in Argentina, Christenson found her true passion in creating art and pursued formal art education at The Glassell School of Art in Houston. Her competitive and perfectionist nature, combined with her artistic education, led to the development of her own contemporary abstract style.

Christenson's paintings celebrate the unstructured gifts of human nature and provide viewers with an invitation to excite their imaginations, let go of stress, and temporarily lose themselves among the colors, shapes, and lines. Her paintings have been exhibited in various venues in Houston and have won awards.

When writing about Paula Christenson’s art, Renee Phillips, Director/Curator at Manhattan Arts International in NYC, states, “A spontaneous interplay of undulating shapes and dynamic contrasting colors and textures emanate from Paula Christenson’s paintings. Her lively compositions provide a continuous crescendo of delightful abstract forms. They appear as a mélange of familiar shapes from nature, human and architectural elements, often as though viewed from an aerial perspective. Her inimitable imagery is as equally exquisite aesthetically as it serves to remind us about our place and evolution in the human experience.