5 Minutes with Kerry Schroeder
Kerry Schroeder is a contemporary mixed-media artist. Her paintings are ethereal and abstract, yet rooted in the physical world, finding context and carrying underlying narratives. Strong dualities such as light and dark, the form and the formless, the raw and refined, imply simultaneous existences and worlds integrated. The multi-layered works reveal remnants and themes of a journey and a search. Using Nature as a language, she interprets both personal and universal experiences and the many cycles of life such as life and death, renewal, change, rebirth, transformation, evolving and devolving. Forms, marks and colors come and go through a larger, more expansive world, allowing the viewer to connect to something abstract, yet something very familiar.
Schroeder received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tulsa University, with an emphasis in Art History. Schroeder now works and lives in Portland, Oregon. Her paintings have been featured in exhibitions in galleries and cultural centers throughout the United States, including the Costello Fine Art Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, Patricia Rovzar Gallery in Seattle, Pryor Fine Art in Atlanta, and Arthouse in Austin, Texas. She has been featured in several national arts publications including American Art Collector. She was selected by Southwest Art magazine as “Artist to Watch. The Editor’s Choice for up-and-coming talent.”
Kerry is represented by Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Favorite quotes
"Think of the small as large."
—Lao Tzu
There's a sorrow in the wind
Blowing' down the road I've been
I can hear it cry while shadows steal the sun
But I can not look back now
I've come too far to turn around
And there's still a race ahead that I must run
I'm only halfway home I gotta journey on
To where I'll find the things that I have lost
I've come a long, long road still I've got miles to go
I've got a wide, wide river to cross
I have stumbled I have strayed
You can trace the tracks I made
All across the memories my heart recalls
But I'm just a refugee won't you say a prayer for me
'Cause sometimes even the strongest soldier falls
—Julie Miller / Stephen P Miller"
Where do you live?
Portland, Oregon
Where do you dream of going someday?
Morocco
Which artists have influenced your work?
Cy Twombly
Andrew Wyeth
Singer songwriters:
Patty Griffin
Julie Miller
Bruce Springsteen
Jackson Browne
What was one of your best experiences in life?
In the heat of a Central Texas summer, a favorite event is going tubing on the Guadalupe River. One time I slipped through the open hole of the tube and floated on my back with one hand lightly on the tube. With my ears under water I could only hear the gurgling of the river while I looked up to the blue sky and white clouds. I don't remember how long I was in this state, but it was magical. I didn't once think about hitting a rock or running into something. I just trusted the flow of the river and let it carry me along.
Name three things on your bucket list
Building my own studio.
Eating a margherita pizza in Naples.
Finding the meaning of life.
Kerry’s website: www.kerryschroeder.com
