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I incorporate drawings of superimposed city maps into my paintings, creating imaginary cities from disparate, yet sociologically relevant, times and places. The streets of ancient Rome intersect those of present-day D.C.; the Tigris and Mississippi Rivers intersect each other; present-day Red Hook, Brooklyn, is aligned with Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. I interconnect locations where historical events have taken place then cut into the canvas and stuff sheer pockets of fabric with bits and pieces of the earth and its elements to represent buildings, bridges and neighborhoods. I paint to collapse the space-time continuum, to record the beauty and destruction of current and past events, and to remind us that they are inextricably entwined.
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Seeds of Empire (Rome, D.C.)
Images
1. He turned their waters to blood (Tigris/Mississippi) (detail)
Oil on canvas, seeds, moss, silk, thread
90 x 54 inches
2007
2. Seeds of Empire (detail)
Oil on canvas, seeds, silk, thread
90 x 54 inches
2006
3. Hearing the land that was now of my blood & flesh
Oil on canvas, seeds, silk, thread
14 x 14 inches
2007
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Kristin was born in 1974 in Durham and grew up in Shelby, North Carolina. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Studio Art (Painting concentration) and a Minor/Certificate in Elementary Education (1997). She received an Ed.M. in Art and Art Education from Columbia University Teachers College (2004), where she wrote her thesis about creative video making with young children. She currently serves as director of Digital Story Workshop, providing creative video explorations for 3-7 year old children. She has been awarded NYSCA School Arts Partnership and Local Capacity Building Arts in Education Grants, as well as Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Regrants to do video projects with K-2nd grade students throughout Brooklyn. Kristin’s paintings and sculptures have been exhibited at Ch’i Contemporary Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY; Redeemer Gallery, NYC; Ravenscroft School, Raleigh, NC; NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY; The Frying Pan, New York, NY; Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; and the Cleveland County Arts Council, Shelby, NC, among others around the country. Her videos have been screened at Art Space MCV/NYC, the Museum of Television and Radio, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Rotunda Gallery. She has received artist residencies from the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, I-Park, Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Rotunda Gallery/Brooklyn Community Access Television.
Hearing the land that was now of my blood & flesh
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