About — Kristen Jean Wheatley

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Kristen Jean Wheatley (she/her) is an artist from Southwest Virginia working primarily with activity, circulation, and endurance. She uses wood, fabric, and metal to actualize her work. She has exhibited at the Murray N. DePillars Gallery and the Anderson in Richmond, VA, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, & Lazy Eye Gallery at Yucca Valley Material Lab. Her project Count the Ways was recently funded by the Yucca Valley Public Art Program. She currently lives in 29 Palms, California, on unceded Serrano and Chemehuevi land.

Through my work, I explore the ways we move and the way the world moves around us. By carefully observing both natural and man-made systems, I learn, track, and respond through artistic production. By creating objects that make the invisible visible, I activate and investigate each cycle. I encourage audiences to look around and question how they consume, interact with, and even depend on the movement of resources, people, information, and themselves.

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