Kerry Vander Meer

ARTIST STATEMENT

Kerry Vander Meer is a U.S. based multi disciplinary artist - painter, printmaker, sculptor, and performance artist - whose vibrant, abstract works often draw inspiration from nature and environmental themes.

Born is Michigan, she currently lives in Healdsburg CA and Mazatan, Mexico.  She earned a B.A. from San Francisco State University and an M.F.A. in sculpture from Mills College in Oakland, CA.  Vander Meer has taught art and yoga at Creative Growth Art Center, a center for artists with disabilities.  She co-founded and led a non-profit public art program as well as created San Anselmo Artists Studios in Marin County.

Her work emphasizes bold colors, organic shapes, layered textures and intuitive process reflecting cycles in nature.  She has exhibited widely across Northern California and beyond - in New York, Seattle, Chicago, and Santa Fe, and abroad via residencies in Ireland, Spain, Mexico, and New York.  She is featured and collected in museums including the Oakland Museum, SF Moma Artists' Gallery, the Marin Museum and Triton Museum.

ARTIST BIO

Kerry Vander Meer presents an ongoing series of painted wood sculptures.  The shapes are cut out of wood inspired by natural forms and the inherent qualities of the materials. She intertwines line, pattern, color and surface to create dynamic and visually engaging works. The sculptures evolve through an intuitive process in which materials can sometimes ingorm the final outcome.

Vander Meer also presents works on paper produced in her Mazatlan, Mexico studio. The small scale framed pieces contain abstract forms that are extracted from drawings in her sketch books.  As she assembles her materials of monotypes papers and fabrics, letting intuition be her guide, abstract shapes begin to morph into new and distinct forms.