ARTISTS

Kristin Bybee

My work begins before I ever touch the surface. Each painting is created on thrifted canvas, within secondhand frames, or using reclaimed and found materials. This commitment to reuse is rooted in sustainability. Every surface carries a past life, and I see my role not as creating from nothing, but as continuing a story already in motion. By working with materials that have lived before, each piece becomes layered with both visible and unseen narrative.

The paintings in this exhibition move across a range of visual languages, scales, and emotional registers. Rather than adhering to a single style, my work reflects shifting psychological spaces and the evolving nature of lived experience. Intimate moments exist beside expansive ones. Observation, memory, and imagination intersect, allowing each piece to function as a fragment of a larger story.

Within the theatrical environment surrounding this exhibition, the works operate like suspended scenes, quiet moments between reality and interior life. Figures, symbols, and environments invite viewers to find their own meaning, to notice what resonates, and to interpret the story within each piece in their own way. At its core, my practice explores connection between past and present, material and meaning, and the layered histories carried by both objects and people.