Art is magic
Kay (she/they) is a visual artist based in Buffalo, NY.
Master of Fine Art in Visual Art—Vermont College of Fine Arts, 2020
Bachelor’s of Science in Visual Arts Education K-12— Daemen College, 2015
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I am currently exploring and creating through a process of art as ritual. My work focuses on the process of actions as art and rituals of alchemical creation—my work has many channels of manifestation which include: automatic drawing, performance, photography, sculpture, installation, painting, and collage. I explore a variety of personal identity themes by engaging the duality of internal vs. external experiences of: gender, queerness, the female body, womanhood, symbolism and the spiritual, archetypal energy, body autonomy, reclamation of religious and gendered actions & rituals, and the intimacy/loneliness of passing time.
Through art as everyday magic and ritual, I create queer-feminist narratives by documenting and performing my queer-femme body. My artistic practice navigates my trauma inflicted through societal assumptions, expectations, and exploitation of the biological-female body. I have reclaimed my sense. of body-autonomy through ritual performance and reimagining myths and archetypes through drawing, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. My goal as an artist is to generate power and autonomy by creating rituals and tools to conjure that agency within myself and my audience. As well as curating and conceptualizing ritual experiences for queer love, gender, & menstrual affirmation ceremonies for others.
After completing an MFA program in June ‘20, my latest project was an art-supply share & redistribution initiative within my community on the west side of Buffalo. I kept this project going for a year from July ’20- ‘21 - inventorying art supplies from around Erie county through a nonprofit buy, sell, trade system and created a local supply of new and used materials for artists of all ages and skill levels.
I am now trying create a full home-studio to continue making personal and professional work postgraduate.