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Artist Statement
Painting is the way I stay in touch with the creative energy of life.
My abstract paintings begin with a simple inspiration, such as a color combination, a shape, or a pattern found in the world around me. Once I start to put this inspiration on canvas, the paintings evolve through my intuitive, spontaneous responses to the non-verbal language of the colors and shapes before me. There is no preconceived outcome of how I want a painting to look. The work develops freely into its own energetic resolution and expression. I love the freedom of this process. It requires honoring and trusting what is happening minute by minute on the canvas before me. There is no right or wrong way to go because there is no definite destination other than the resolution of the work into its own moment of beauty and completeness.
Bio
A transplant from Iowa to Colorado, Kristy's work has been shown
throughout United States, and here in Colorado, including:
"Romancing the Arts" (2010, 2011, 2015), Castle Rock, CO
“The Pinery Art Show”, The Pinery, CO
“The 4th Annual Front Range Art Exhibit” Castle Rock, CO
“The 15th Annual Artists of Colorado Exhibit, Denver, CO
“Own an Original”, Littleton, CO
“This is Colorado”, The Madden Gallery, Greenwood Village, CO
“Artist’s Choice”, Mainstreet Gallery, Parker, CO
“Duets”, Mainstreet Gallery, Parker, CO
“The International Art Show”, Little Tokyo Galleria, Los Angeles, CA
“WOW” and “Black and White”, CORE Gallery on Sante Fe, Denver, CO
“Elements of Nature”, The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO
“Our Planet”, Curtis Center for the Arts, Greenwood Village, CO
She also exhibits at SYNC Gallery, 931 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO.
Her work is exhibited in the permanent art collections of Prairiewoods
Retreat Center, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the University Chaplaincy in Iowa
City, IA along with several corporate collections, and is in private
collections throughout the U.S. She has also done commissioned work
for The Episcopal Diocese of Iowa.
Kristy received her BFA from the University of Iowa where she studied
under Byron Burford, Milton Resnick and Joseph Patrick. She most
recently has continued to learn with Denver artists Lee Rose, Tadashi
Hayakawa and Ed Jensen.
She currently resides in Denver with her husband, Dave and their cat, Annie.
