ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a maker who finds utility and beauty in nearly everything.  Give me a scrapyard and I see sculpture. A ball of twine - connections to employ emblematically in prints and textured paintings.  Cardboard - the beginnings of collage. Old buttons -  book cover adornment. And on. 

My use of pattern reflects wallpaper that lined every surface of a narrow, low-ceilinged hallway in my childhood home.  That wallpaper portal led to different patterns and different colors in small, adjacent rooms, then the scalloped screen door framing a broad country sky.

This fueled my feel for landscape, abstractedly torqued by irrigation rainbows layering the ever-blowing desert winds. Those winds whipped up fantastically shaped sand storms drifting through bright atmospheric windows, or dark ones.  Either way, they always suggested more to know about this world than was easily explainable.  

These things and many more feed an imagination itching to make work with anything I can get my hands on as a means of exploring what we see and perhaps, just as importantly, what we cannot.   

KERRY BROCK is a painter, assemblage artist, printmaker, bookmaker and award-winning journalist currently living and working in Nashville, TN.  Whatever her day job through the years, she always made art.

Kerry grew up on a farm in Pasco, WA, driving harvesting equipment, exhibiting her sheep and horses in 4-H events and sewing her own clothes. She joined the debate team at Washington State University, which sparked an interest in journalism.

During a television career of more than two decades she hosted the PBS program Freedom Speaks, served as a media analyst for CNN, Fox, Time, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and as a news anchor/reporter for KOMO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Seattle, WA. She was also a founding employee of EdificeRex.com in New York, NY.

Kerry is a member of Tennessee Craft and the Frist Art Museum.  She has been a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and MoCA CT.