Kerry Adams

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BIO

Kerry is currently an MFA candidate in the Summer MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art.  Her concentration is in installation art and she is expected to graduate in 2009. Kerry received her BFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2004. Before transferring to RISD, she attended Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. where she concentrated on sculpture and furniture making.  

Kerry's work focuses on the domestic space as a way to explore how environments simultaneously shape, express, and hide aspects of the people who visit and inhabit them.  The domestic space, or home, is familiar to almost all people but in this work it is focused on as a place of safety and fear, love and labor, relationships and silence.  Kerry looks at the changes in domestic spaces and domestic responsibilities over time as well as the day to day use of these spaces.  

Kerry addresses perceptions of the domestic through multi-media installations and sculptures.  In these works, she uses familiar approachable objects such as yarn in conjunction with traditional sculpting materials.  Her work is rooted in personal experience, research, and conversations which help to layer her work with meaning understood through experience.  The pieces should encourage viewers to question their relationship to the work, to their own histories, and to their daily lives.

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