Kristen Throop

Kristen Throop’s art begins with a determined curiosity for the meaning of life. She courageously uses unique subjects like cuckoo clocks, Technicolor, black bears, cows or T-Rex to explore complex ideas. Each body of work explores personal truths which connect to universal human experience.

A period of thorough research which integrates literature, music, film, science and history is followed by the discipline of intimately sketching cosmologies of each subject. After experimenting with materials, the sculpture, painting or installation is then created. Through her work, she challenges her audience to look at the familiar in ways that expand their perception of life.

Kristen Throop is an insatiable learner, avid reader and closet librarian who travels the halls of the Metropolitan Museum in her dreams. She has a BFA from Syracuse University where she studied painting and drawing with Jerome Witkin. She has studied at Yale University and with the Museum of Modern Art in New York.