Kristin Voss

Painting was my first love

It’s how I’m wired. I’ve always seen colors and shapes and composition, no matter what is in my view. I have an innate and compulsive desire to create. Art is my outlet to work through, express, and ultimately understand my emotions and feelings that I experience everyday of my life. It’s like being able to create my own lens to see the world through.

Once I start, I can’t stop

Painting is the strongest pleasure known to me. It’s the rapture I get when I’m working on a piece and I begin to discover what belongs where, what colors to incorporate, where to add texture and am beginning to create an image where I understand and orchestrate how all of those parts are going to come together. The process is soul-filling. I can never seem to calm the urge to draw or paint. It’s a never-ending cycle of pondering, planning, starting, creating, completing, and starting something anew. The ideas never stop.

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls” – Pablo Picasso

There are SO MANY beautiful things in the world. There’s also a lot of not so beautiful things. I try to find the uniqueness, color, humor, honesty, grace, humanity and life in all of them. Art can change you and make you se...

BA in Studio Art and Art History from The University of Maryland

THE HOWL FESTIVAL
September 2008
Group Festival/Exhibit

LOST DOG GALLERY
January 3rd-17th, 2025
Group Show: “8x12”

COLE NOBEL GALLERY
January 7th-March 30th, 2025
Solo Show: “FEM BOMB”

RE-PUBLIC GALLERY
February 7th-14th, 2025
Solo Show: “My Expose of Color”

IRVINGTON LODGE
March 8th-22nd, 2025
Group Show

FISHERS ART COUNCIL
April 7th-June 27th, 2025
“Summer Shine”

DAMIAN ARTS CENTER
July 11th-September 5th, 2025
Group Show: “Poolside Gossip”

GALLERY317
October 25th-November 1st, 2025
Group Show: “Art After Dark”

GARFIELD PARK ARTS CENTER
February 1st - March 13th 2026
Group Show: “Real Love Baby”