Atlanta-based artist Kerry Hays’s “Containment” is a series of abstracted floral collages and layered geometric paintings exploring the tension between freedom and restriction. In her richly textured silk florals, Kerry pairs down the compositions reducing them to their essential expressive silhouettes. Multiple wax dye baths are layered to create color variations and additional textures. Her geometric paintings are slowly built using repeated applications of translucent to opaque layers of acrylic, bound and masked to create sharp edges and rhythmic patterns. Bright saturated colors push against these structured boundaries, generating color fields where softness and precision collide. Each piece is a dialogue between fluidity and control, inviting the viewer into a world that is both bound by restraint, yet uncontained.
"Umber Caves & a Violet Sky," acrylic on canvas, 36 by 36 inches
"Blushing Black," wax dyed silk collage, 15.25 by 13.25 inches framed
"Urn Flower IV," wax dyed silk collage, 15.25 by 13.25 inches framed
"Pink Glass House," acrylic on canvas, 35.5 by 45 inches
"Expand," wax dyed silk collage, 41.75 by 32.75 inches
"Milan Flowers II & III," wax dyed silk collage, 41.75 x 32.75 inches each
"Silk Forest," wax dyed silk collage, 41.75 by 32.75 inches
"Expand II," wax dyed silk collage, 41.75 by 32.75 inches
"All in the Golden Afternoon," wax dyed silk collage, 41.75 by 32.75 inches
"Mermaid Flower II," wax dyed silk collage, 22 by 14.75 inches
"Sunrise Urn Flowers," wax dyed silk collage, 18.75 by 16 inches
Kerry Hays is an Atlanta-based abstract painter. She holds a BA from the University of Georgia. Her work has been collected internationally and included in numerous exhibitions throughout the Southeast.
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