ARTIST STATEMENT

Krista Harris is an expressionist painter whose work blurs the lines between abstraction and the natural world. Richly layered and nuanced surfaces keep images and ideas in the air, as if waiting to come into focus. Allusions to natural forms, hazy memories, and summer road trips appear then slip away, only to reappear in a new order. The works seem to be built from scratches and scars, subtle complexities, the sounds and scents of places, all designed to get under our skin. They seem almost recognizable, perhaps our own experiences, and suggestive of a location that is everywhere and nowhere at once. 

The Colorado artist often begins her work by listening and observing the world around her, employing all her senses, alert for tension or balance, patterns, and possibilities. Her mixed media works on canvas and paper are “part art, part science experiments,” she says, referring to her love of materials and the unpredictability of process.