“These paintings continue my cemetery motif that I have been using as a means to explore different modes of painting. These paintings, as well as others completed during quarantine took on new prescient levels of meaning as the death counts kept building and the sound of sirens continued in New York City.”
Kerry Law is an artist and art teacher who lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens. He has had solo shows internationally. Recent solo shows in New York include 6 Paintings at 106 Van Buren, curated by Cathy Nan Quinlan, Rustling, Rest at Centotto and Kerry Law 'nite at Storefront Bushwick Project Space. Recent group shows in New York include When Geometry Smiles curated by Eric Hibit at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Try to Smoke it, curated by Holly Coulis at Taymour Grahne and Between a Place and Candy curated by Jason Andrew at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery. His work has also been seen in the Gift Shop at Valentine Gallery in Ridgewood and on the cover of City Journal magazine. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail and The New Criterion. In 2012 he was a top ten nominated artist for GO: a community-curated open studio project organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Born in Westchester, New York he received his BFA in painting from Binghamton University, SUNY with Highest Honors and his MFA from Purchase College, SUNY.
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