About Kailey Maher
Kailey Maher (b.1988) is an emerging visual artist and dreamer of impossibility. In 2022 she received her BFA from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh with a focus on sculpture and ceramics. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally. She is a second-generation stone carver.
Artist Statement
My interpretation of the natural world is explored through the language of exchange between nature and my part in it. I find myself fascinated with non-linear concepts of time and the rhythmic patterns mimicked in nature, which is not about the allocation of time, but the experience of. Mirroring its medium of stone and clay, pushing against and pulling within, my artwork is the expression of my form—an undulating essence of consciousness, a beginning and a beginning-again.
Each work reflects the effects of time—shaping and reshaping, not in minutes and seconds, but a living lifetime of transformative movements of contractions and expansions intertwined in the nature of the self; ever-exposing the causeways of a life lived, unlived and yet-lived. Giving way to what is hidden within and what is exposed without.