Kirsten Hemrich is an artist based in Richmond, VA. 

In my current body of work I continue my exploration of abstraction through mixed media painting, ceramics, and artist books. My two-dimensional work incorporates symbolic imagery, garish color, and dream-like atmospheres. My ceramics play with classical forms, reimagined expressively with plastic colors. As a whole, my work is informed by poetry and myth in a process that reconciles awkwardness and beauty. Each work is an investigation of origin. Abstract forms take on the shape of birds, clouds, and natural phenomena--loaded symbols that speak to memory, collective myth and storied beginning.