Kathleen Callery
Born in Patuxent, Maryland, Kathleen Callery has created art in many of the places in the United States in which she and has lived. Her art education includes: The University of San Diego in San Diego, California; Florida International University in Miami, Florida; The Corcoran School of Art, Open Program, in Washington DC and; The Art League in Alexandria, Virginia. A former Torpedo Factory artist, Callery taught drawing and acrylic painting at the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia. She has shown her work in both group and solo shows and was listed in “Art in America 2004-2005 Guide to Museums, Galleries and Artists.”
Kathleen states: “Over the years a very personal visual language has evolved on my canvases. This visual language has been built on the ideas of past artists combined with careful attention to what it is, exactly, that I want on a particular canvas. My working method is based on a generalist’s synthesis of new information into an existing system. I gather new information in a variety of ways: In the past by taking art classes, and now by experiencing and observing life, reading, traveling, looking at art, and talking to people, to name a few. At first I have a “hunch” that the information will fit into the system. As I stand before a canvas and enter a zone of concentration, a synthesis of new information, memories, and my pre-existing visual vocabulary occurs, it is a fusing. Occasionally, when in sync, I am effortlessly quilting unrelated parts together consistent with my being. The tangible result is a painting and a more complete system from which next to spring. Painter’s paint and with each painting the system grows.”
