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"Art, all art, has this characteristic, that it unites people.
Every art causes those to whom the artist's feeling is transmitted to unite in soul with
the artist and also with all who receive the same impression."
Growing up in the suburbs outside Washington DC, I would sometimes skip school and travel by Metro downtown to the National Gallery and the Hirshhorn. There I would spend hours studying the magnificent works of art. I was particularly drawn to modern masters --- Picasso, Kandinsky, Matisse, Dubuffet --- whose imaginative dimensions, mysterious and poetic, spoke to me and reflected the way I saw the world. Unfortunately, my own attempts at art were less than successful. In high school, my art teachers would set up elaborate still-lifes and praise those students who were able to create nearly photographic copies. Never able to achieve the right proportions, the exact colors, the sense of three dimensions, my paintings tended to be flat and slightly strange. I abandoned all creative endeavors and went on to study psychology at the Universities of Maryland and Texas. It wasn't until 1997, after connecting with Colorado artist Joan Anderson, that I decided to try my own hand at abstraction. At first, a blank canvas with its limitless possibilities was completely overwhelming, but with each stroke of the brush I could feel myself coming alive. I began to tap into an interior world that was both complex and alluring. Painting at a pace that is both meditative and frenzied, my artworks are spontaneous expressions of the present moment. I never approach a canvas with a preconceived notion of what it is I will paint. Instead, I respond to the painting's clues, its instructions. Images appear and then are covered; it is the layering of these forms that makes the paintings whole and allows their truths to emerge. Each mark I make on the page is an attempt to capture the intangible, an attempt to make my invisible visible, a celebration of the hidden processes and experiences of life.
Biography Kristine Kowalski lived in Colorado for ten years, but recently exchanged life on land for life aboard: she and her long-time partner Eric Meyer live on their 41’ sailboat Yemaya in Annapolis, MD. In 1999 Ms. Kowalski established Keridwen Studios. Featured in the January/February 2002 issue of Colorado Homes & Lifestyles Magazine, she has exhibited her work in Boulder at Art & Soul Gallery, MacLaren Markowitz Gallery, Magnolia, Limbo, and The Dairy Center for the Arts. She has recently written two children's books and is in the process of illustrating them. Represented by the Morgan Lehman Gallery in Lakeville, CT and New York, NY her paintings can be found in private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
Selected Exibitions 2005 Selected Works, Java Java, Kiawah Island, SC* 2004 Selected Works, Magnolia, Boulder, CO 2003 Smaller than a Bread Box, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT 2003 Elements, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT 2003 Selected Works, Magnolia, Boulder, CO 2003 Holiday, Manning Place, Washington DC* 2002 Longmont Studio Tour, Keridwen Studios, Longmont, CO 2002 Joy!, Art & Soul Gallery, Boulder, CO* 2002 Diamonds & Spurs, NCAR, Boulder, CO 2002 Quartets, MacLaren Markowitz Gallery, Boulder, CO 2002 Quartets, Limbo, Boulder, CO 2001 Artful Quartet: Conversations in Image, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO 2001 Blue Eyes Snap Like Fire, Art & Soul Gallery, Boulder, CO* 2001 Denver AIDS Art Auction, Pepsi Center, Denver, CO 2001 Art/AIDS 2001, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO 2000 Dreaming Red, Limbo, Boulder, CO* 2000 Selected Works, Colorado Business Bank, Boulder, CO 2000 Women Driven to Abstraction, MacLaren Markowitz Gallery, Boulder, CO 1999 Kristine Kowalski: Early Works, Over the Moon, Longmont, CO* 1997 Visions and Verses in Private, Naropa University, Boulder, CO * indicates a solo exhibition
Awards 2002 Scholarship, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO 2001 AHAB/Addison Mini-Grant, Art & Humanities Assembly of Boulder 2001 Mini-Grant for Visual Arts Projects, City of Boulder Arts Commission 2000 Community Curator, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
Publications 01-01-06 Naropa University ES Catalog (Cover) 09-20-02 Boulder Daily Camera 06-01-02 Bombay Gin: Bomb's Away 01-01-02 Colorado Homes & Lifestyles Magazine 10-04-01 Boulder Weekly 09-23-01 Boulder Daily Camera 09-23-01 Colorado Daily 06-01-01 Boulder Women's Magazine 06-01-01 Boulder Daily Camera 05-31-01 Boulder Daily Camera 09-27-00 Boulder Daily Camera 02-24-00 Boulder Weekly 02-17-00 Boulder Weekly 02-17-00 Boulder Daily Camera 02-01-00 Boulder Women's Magazine
Gallery Representation Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT and New York, NY
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