I'm drawn to the unseen rhythms of life — the constant movement between emergence and dissolution, clarity and uncertainty, tension and resolution. Life is never static; it is continually reorganizing, transforming, finding its way forward through forces both visible and hidden. My paintings are an attempt to make these rhythms tangible.

I turn to nature as my visual language because it reflects this same complexity — layered, ever-shifting, never fixed. Blending gestural brushwork and spontaneous marks with representational forms, my paintings inhabit the space between the tangible and the abstract.

My process is a continual push and pull, the same forces that shape life itself: layering, resisting, yielding, revealing. I create fragments — pieces of a larger, invisible order brought briefly into presence. Each painting holds a moment within that larger motion, where something is revealed and, briefly, known.

Biography

Kerry Schroeder is a contemporary mixed-media artist. Her paintings are ethereal and abstract, yet rooted in the physical world, finding context and carrying underlying narratives. Strong dualities such as light and dark, the form and the formless, the raw and refined, imply simultaneous existences and worlds integrated. The multi-layered works reveal remnants and themes of a journey and a search. Using Nature as a language, she interprets both personal and universal experiences and the many cycles of life, such as life and death, renewal, change, rebirth, and transformation. Forms, marks, and colors come and go through a larger, more expansive world, allowing the viewer to connect to something abstract yet something very familiar.

Schroeder received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tulsa University, with an emphasis in Art History. Her paintings have been featured in exhibitions in galleries and cultural centers throughout the United States, including the Costello Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, Patricia Rovzar Gallery in Seattle, Pryor Fine Art in Atlanta, and Arthouse in Austin, Texas. She has been featured in several national art publications, including American Art Collector. She was selected by Southwest Art magazine as “Artist to Watch. The Editor’s Choice for up-and-coming talent.”