DVAA Member since 2022
Kayte Terry
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About:
Kayte studied Art History and Women’s Studies at Simon’s Rock College of Bard and received her MFA in Studio Art at University of the Arts. She has also studied abroad with the School for International Training in Fortaleza, Brazil and at the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy. Kayte has been in group shows in New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA and Seattle, WA including the show Adorned: Beauty in Excess at Joy Pratt Markham Gallery at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, AK in 2020 and This Mortal Coil at the Zuckerman Museum in Kennesaw, GA in 2022.
Kayte was a member of the art collective Little Berlin in Philadelphia and is currently focused on saving the meadows at FDR park.
Artist Statement:
“My work examines the literal and figurative boundaries of the body. Through photography, video, collage, installation and object-making, I unravel issues of illness, family, memory, longing and loss. As a queer woman living with a cluster of auto-immune diseases, I’m interested in both making the invisible illness visible and finding beauty in pain and restriction. Most recently, I’m interested in exploring radical inter-dependency and love, particularly through the dream of communal, poly and d/s relationships.
I piece together materials that are imprinted with the shape of the body such as socks, gloves, and my own skin with materials like shower curtains, balloons and fashion magazines . The patchwork of these materials form a personal language that speaks to the fuzzy intersection of my personal desires and feminine cultural expectations.”
