Arist, Educator, Curator
Kristine Granger
Bio
Kristine earned her Master of Fine Arts degree and Women’s Study Certificate from Stony Brook University, NY. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, focusing on Photography, from University of Oregon-Eugene, School of Architecture and Allied Arts. She also received a Certificate of Completion from The Paris Fashion Institute in Paris France and an Associates of Science in Fashion Design from Plaza Three Academy in Phoenix Arizona.
She is currently Art Faculty and Fine Arts Coordinator for Bay College in Escanaba MI. She has been published in the 2nd edition of, Elements of Photography, by artist and author Angela Faris-Belt. Granger was a 2020 & 2022, Artist-in-Residence at Chateau d’Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France and a recipient of The Denis Diderot Award. Her sculpture, jouissance and, the red one, created at the residency are now part of their permanent collection and on permanent display in the Chateau. In 2022, she was an artist-in-residence on Mackinac Island and the recipient of the grand prize for Poetic Visions of Mackinac. Kristine is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates memory and exhibits both nationally and internationally.
“Granger’s artwork invites the viewer to reflect on the indelible recollections that define our own realities.”- Monica Bravo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Southern California.
Artist Statement
When I was a child and would visit my grandparents, I was always intrigued with the bookshelf behind my grandpa’s chair. The shelves held books such as, The World Encyclopedia, big pictures, and words for such a small child. I would go through all these books, but my favorites were the ones that held the human form in transparent pages. These pages could be lifted to show the skeleton, muscles, and the separate organs, all the layers of the human form. It fascinated me that they broke down the body into layers and that you could simply lift the pages to discover another layer, one that was just as important as the first for the function and completion of the human. I saw a greater picture; this concept of layering has intrigued me throughout my life. I struggled growing up about the notion of what made me and where I belonged. I wrestled to accept all the facets of myself, to understand that events whether positive or negative had to be accepted and understood as my existence. The layer of living: the construction and destruction of self that is necessary for growth. This is a process that is articulated for me best through the creation of my works. It is a theory that I have continually nurtured and dissected.
I am an interdisciplinary artist; featuring the sensorial, inviting the viewer to participate in the completion the works. The integration of image, video, sound, sculpture, and installation is crucial to my creative practice.
Photo Credit @ Serena Merry