Finding Form Anew: A Voice in Emergence

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 1 @ 5:00 - 6:30PM

Show Dates: Oct 1 - Nov 2

After a traumatic brain injury and FND took her memories, voice, and the life she had spent decades building, Kaos Kris is beginning a new chapter—rebuilding her artistic practice through wood, resin, and dimensional work.

Art has always been the one constant in Kris’s life. She had been a tattoo artist for nearly twenty years when the car accident took everything, and she was forced to start over in ways she never expected. The injury brought aphasia, memory loss, chronic pain, and the ongoing challenge of navigating a world that suddenly moved faster than her body and brain could keep up with. For years she struggled to be heard and believed while she was unable to fully advocate for herself.

Significant recovery was not expected, but Kris was determined to keep creating. She began teaching herself entirely new tools and processes. She learned CNC machining, built her own equipment, and gradually developed a new artistic language through wood, resin, and laser-cut forms. What began as an act of survival slowly became the foundation for a new body of work, and most likely the key to getting better.

Her practice is rooted in persistence, transformation, and rediscovery. Through layered wood, resin, and sculptural forms, Kris creates work that shows the light she found in the dark places and the joy of the possibility of renewal. Each piece is part of an ongoing process of rebuilding—not only an artistic practice, but a life.

This work is what rebuilding a life looks like.