Portrait of Trisha Kyner
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Trisha Kyner

Sculpture / Installation, Visual / Media

My work pinwheels between extravagant gesture and the rictus of enforced pose. I sculpt female bodies that are internally felt, claiming animal or biological flesh with nerves and sensation, rather than a proscribed identity as woman or girl. I have studied the art historical use of female and animal bodies as allegories, and I am drawn to the tension between the lived body and its symbolic reification. My most recent work has been influenced by witnessing environmental devastation due to climate change. These new figures are depictions of Folly, Warning and Loss.

About the Artist

Trisha Kyner is an Associate Professor of Art at the Community College of Baltimore County.  She holds a B.A. from University of California, Santa Cruz, a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an M.F.A. from the University of Montana. She hails from Colorado and California, but now calls Baltimore home.  She lives in a converted grocery store in Baltimore County with fellow artist David Friedheim and two cats. Her work has been shown at Grounds for Sculpture, the National Council for Education in Ceramic Arts (NCECA), the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, and the National Gallery of Art in Mumbai, India.  She has been awarded residencies at Watershed Center For the Ceramic Arts, the Clay Studio of Missoula, c.r.e.t.a Rome, and A.I.R. Vallauris, France.  

Featured Work

Photos

Detail, Harpy Hanging From Monkey Bar
The last in a series of heads sculpted after the Kavanaugh hearings.