Blue Springs Studio Map

Kory Twaddle’s works explore her interactions with space as subject matter in which she seeks to give physical presence to her own encounters with the world via lived diagrams. Her works are records of the moment, of specific periods of time and space that consider how she moves through her studio, home, and workplace. Using collaged elements and objects from these locations, they map the buildings in an abstracted and playful way in efforts to examine how the body and the spaces it inhabits are intertwined in reality and conceptual architectures. The paintings, drawings, collages, and mixed media installation works are laid flat in the process of making in order for pools of color to form and combine. Gouache, watercolor, acrylic, and oils are used, on canvas, paper, or board. Other works include dry media drawing with graphite, conté crayon, marker, and colored pencil, along with other mixed media. Layered additions of objects from these locations, sometimes personal possessions of the artist and others found, add a sense of time and place. The Situationists movement in art is a huge influence of Twaddle’s work. An award-winning artist, she is also an art educator. Exhibiting her work locally, nationally, and internationally, she has created individual installations as well as been included in numerous group shows, and participates in projects with artists and artist collectives.