Kathy Skerritt

Kathy Skerritt

Biographical Info Cleveland artist Kathy M. Skerritt has been deeply influenced by hours spent gazing at the Earth from airplanes while traveling around the globe. This led her to notice common patterns across enormous expanses of the planet’s surface and these became central to her treatment of form and surface in her paintings. Participation in a wide range of cultures in the context of this traveling evoked ideas about artful knowing and practice as pathways to both appreciate the gifts of cultures other than the one in which she was raised and to find threads of shared humanity that transcend cultural differences. Her artistic inquiry is a practice of learning to feel and see what animates form from beneath, within, or behind surface appearances; to touch and be touched by the whole within which and as all forms arise. Artistic influences include Gaudi (surface embellishment), Adi Da (simultaneity of the image and the viewer), and Goldsworthy (patterning and transitory states in nature). Her ongoing inquiry is into what it means to notice the beautiful as a practice of resilience in the face of the tragic, planetary and personal; and what are the implications of beginning with beauty as an organizing principle of aesthetics and culture altogether. She received the BFA in Art from Carnegie-Mellon University and the Masters in Positive Organization Change & Development from Case Western Reserve University, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Email Address kmskerritt@att.net

Level Individual Artist

Start Date October 18, 2017