Katey Berry                                                             
                                                                             Artist

Katey Berry grew up in Westchester, NY.  At 17, she moved to Brooklyn and studied drawing, painting, and sculpture at the Art Students League of New York.  Later, she enrolled at Hunter College, City University of New York to study philosophy and enter the BFA program. At 27 she drove out west with her dog Jack and a few belongings in search of big sky, vast plains, and inspiring change.​

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Katey now lives in the rural Pecos River Valley of New Mexico.  Her work reflects the landscapes of her daily walks and her continued interests in philosophy, the sciences, and ancient human history.

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Her paintings are 'built' by embedding untwined hand-dyed cotton thread into beeswax creating a visual and sensual 'braille'.

 

These paintings engage your senses:  

 

they provide big spaces to land your mind and call you close,

you will want to run your fingers across them,

while you breathe in the sweet aroma of raw beeswax as

your eyes linger on earthy tones and move with

reflections of light dancing on their burnished wax surface.

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This work is where organic forms and linear repetitions create a compelling dialogue and rhythm.

 

​​Katey's processes and visual language are physical, direct, primal, and precise. ​

 

Her work has been shown in Philadelphia, South Carolina, Taos, New York, and Santa Fe.

The Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama and the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos have included Katey Berry in juried exhibitions.

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"I am committed to being a conduit of human experience where the visceral and conceptual meet."

- Katey Berry

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"I believe solely in art."

​"Art is a combination of three things: feelings, intellect, and will."

- Anselm Keifer