Kerry Downey
Kerry Downey is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in Kingston, NY. Their work explores embodied and experimental forms of transformation. Downey has exhibited nationally and internationally and recently at the Bard CCS / Hessel Museum, Queens Museum, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, Knockdown Center, Kate Werble, and University of Arizona Museum of Art, amongst others. Downey’s publication, We collect together in a net, was published by Wendy’s Subway in 2019. Downey spent thirteen years teaching in the Education Department at the Museum of Modern Art and most recently taught in the Painting Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.
The Mahican name for the Hudson (Mahicannituk) translates to “the river that flows both ways” which serves as the title of the second show at artist-run RUTHANN in Catskill, NY. The show is estuarine in nature, with many kinds of flow—the connections between four local artist friends, their material histories, and the energetic shifts between psychic and relational space.
