Biography:
Kathryn Taylor Gray is an award-winning
Coast art photographer. She recently added recyled art to her creative
endeavors. She is a member of several Coast art associations and has
exhibited widely, both locally and regionally, in both group and one-person
shows.
She was one of 10 artists chosen to participate in the "Highway
61--the Blues Highway" Exhibit at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art
in 2003. She is best known locally for her photographs of ancient
doors taken in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Artist's Statement:
Although I work in the legal profession, I have always been an artist
on the inside. I grew up among the swamps and cotton fields of Northeast
Louisiana. Pushing my love of art aside to "make a living,"
I majored in business at Louisiana Tech University, relocated to the
Mississippi Gulf Coast in the mid 70s and went into the legal field.
In the mid 80s, art reared its lovely head and I began taking night
classes. My friend and teacher, Normarie Wigal from Biloxi, was a
huge influence on me, introducing me not only to the joys of watercolor
and collage but, most importantly, in showing me how to truly see.
Soon thereafter, I picked up a camera and yet another world opened.
I took one course in photography, but basically learned the old fashioned
way--by taking MANY pictures. I still use film, and my photography
collages are all hand made.
I have not yet chosen to join the digital world. I am drawn to abstractions,
architecture and objects of vanishing roadside Americana--old motel
signs, rusted automobiles, movie theatre marquees … Photography
heaven for me would have been a road trip along Route 66 in its heyday!
In recent years I've become intrigued by assemblages and recycled
art. I create mirrors with frames to which I painstakingly nail tiny
squares of cut-up soda cans, and I create recycled art jewelry from
anything that I find interesting--game pieces, aluminum cans, Altoids
containers, circuit boards … I love the idea of taking mundane
items that one would usually discard and giving them a brand new life.
Aside from spending time with my husband and my sweet kitty cat, I
derive most of my pleasure in this life from the creation of art.
Kathryn Taylor Gray
21086 Pineville Road
Long Beach, MS 39560
228-867-7290 (H)
228-669-6960 (C)
www.photoizzart.com
ktgray@bellsouth.net
