Kerry Schroeder
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Growing up, Kerry Schroeder’s time alone was often spent drawing and painting. Recording familiar objects and forms, she paid close attention to color, shapes, textures, and lights and darks, as a way to really “see” her subjects. During these drawing sessions her mind would wander, looking for answers to the big questions, such as “What is God?” and “Who will I marry?”
Studying art history in college, Kerry was particularly drawn to Renaissance paintings, with their heroic composition, warm color palette, interrelationship of light and shadow, and juxtaposition of real and symbolic events.
Today, Kerry’s work reflects her fascination with and attraction to nature, where she discovers symbols and metaphors of human experiences such as emergence, growth, transformation, struggle, fragility and survival.
Using acrylic on wood panel, Kerry presents isolated, representational forms as a way into the subject and the story of the painting. Through a back-and-forth process, she applies colors, marks, shapes and symbols, then scrapes and wipes, allowing to emerge what wants to be revealed and known.
Her work is currently represented by galleries in Nashville, Atlanta and Seattle. She has been featured in American Art Collector and was named Southwest Art’s “Artist to Watch” November, 2011.
