I am at home in longing. I’m always searching for what lies just beneath the surface or just beyond my reach. My paintings reflect this practice—each piece is a pursuit of something that resonates, tells a story, or reveals a truth.

My process is a constant push and pull—allowing what wants to emerge, working with what appears, and letting go of what doesn’t belong. Like stirring a dark pond, I look for what rises, what calls for my attention, and what fades away. Each painting leads me to dig for something just out of reach while coaxing the unfamiliar forward.

I turn to nature as my visual language—layered, ever-changing, and complex, much like life itself. I consider my work expressionistic, blending gestural brushstrokes and spontaneous marks with representational forms, existing in the space between the tangible and the abstract.

My work is a metaphor for the search for answers in a world where they feel both close at hand and impossibly distant.

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.”