Katherine Sehr

I make art because I have to. I make art because for the past fourteen years people have responded positively to the work. I have been an artist since a very early age and have pursued that dream ever since. I started off at around the age of nine as a ballet dancer. I studied dance until I was seventeen. It taught me expression, movement, timing, intuition and discipline. At the same time I was starting to paint and draw in school. Both art and dance have always been with me. I make art because I’m a performer.

My art is a representation of a performance that is not viewed live or all at once. There are many, many stops and starts with segments that vary in length.

What inspires me to make this art is the satisfaction and sense of closure I get when it is complete, the enjoyment I have during the process of making each piece, and knowing that I have contributed something to the world. There are many other things and ideas that inspired me when I was developing this style. Some of them are Taoism, racing, driving, dancing, philosophy, mathematics, history and art history.

Beyond all influences there is compulsion. I have a strong need to make meditative color field drawings. I record time through a simple yet complex ma...

MFA 2005 Printmedia The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BFA 2000 Painting The New York State University at Buffalo, Magna Cum Laude