Collection: Kathryn Shriver

Kathryn Shriver (she/her) is a visual artist from Western New York, now currently living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. Her work spans painting, sculpture, drawing, metalwork, and writing, but is grounded in a materiality-based approach with a particular focus on glass beads. Kathryn's work is based in a curiosity about relationships between taste, ornament, making and self-fashioning as a woman from a white, working-class family steeped in values of bootstrapping, social climbing, and intentional assimilation. Heightened by the friction between her academic background in painting and a longstanding interest in domestic craft inherited from her mother and grandmother, the tensions between different  conceptions of creativity, expression, and knowledge production accepted across social classes and contexts guide the questioning at the heart of her practice.