Kathy Nida
Kathy Nida has been making art for many years. She studied art in college, at UC Irvine and in Wales, focusing on ceramics, photography, and printmaking. After college, Nida began as a printmaker, eventually moving into fiber arts.
Her work explores issues of a woman’s existence and is very much a narrative of her personal life, even as it refers to the greater human population. Human rights, the environment, and politics are current focuses.
The never-ending palette of fabrics brings her joy; she also appreciates its tactile qualities.
She has been venturing out into ceramics, dye painting, and slow stitching in the last couple of years, as she explores new ways to tell stories.
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Desert Mother
Size: 57'' x 57.5''
As a new member of Soul Stories, Kathy has not yet produced a piece specifically for this exhibition. Desert Mother is included to illustrate the type of work she will contribute.
The desert seems dry, lifeless, mostly sand, but in reality, it explodes with life and color. This earth goddess protects her desert world.
Her body, constructed of sand, rock, and water that intermittently flows, supports a plethora of creatures and plant material that seems invisible as we race by in our cars, focused on our devices.
Nature is always there, waiting for us to stop and walk through it, to leave behind whatever trauma the daily world brings, to deliver peace. The diversity of the desert also reminds us that the natural world holds space for many different types of organisms; we should follow its example.