Bio
A native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art, Kerri McGill, continues to make art in the Boston area at Vernon Street Studios in Somerville. As an artist, McGill is both researcher and storyteller. She sees her artwork as an active object. It brings a permanent stillness to a moment, where the paint and the viewer’s attention and thought create a space that fosters new thoughts and ideas.
Her participation in Copenhagen's Neuroaesthetics Conference galvanized her interest in the connection between vision and self manufactured realities. Grants from the Mass Cultural Council supported her exploration of effects of living environment on quality of life. Working as a scenic artist for film and television, she is familiar with large scale projects. Her participation in art residencies expanded ideas of the world that connects us all.
Her experiences in New Zealand, a covid induced extended stay, created a core of experiences that. inform her most recent body of work, The Mountains We Climb.