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.  She later attended Hunter College, City University of New York, where she studied philosophy and entered the BFA program.

At 27, seeking big skies and wide open horizons, she drove west with her dog Jack and a few belongings.  She eventually settled in the rural Pecos River Valley of northern New Mexico, where she lives and works today.

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The landscape of the Southwest, together with an enduring interest in philosophy, science, and ancient human history, informs her work.

Working with color, line, thread and beeswax, Berry builds her surfaces slowly and methodically. Lines and color are laid down first, followed by layers of wax into which each thread is individually embedded. Through repeated slow acts of layering, smoothing, concealment, and revelation, the work develops a surface that is physical and atmospheric.  Her paintings draw upon the natural world while exploring memory, connection, rhythm and time. The thread serves both as mark and metaphor - suggesting pathways, relationships, repair and the invisible structures that connect memory to place.

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Berry's work has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, South Carolina, Taos and Santa Fe.

Her work has been included in juried exhibitions at the Harwood Museum of Art and the Mobile Museum of Art.

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"I am interested in the places where memory, landscape, and time intersect"

- Katey Berry​​