Krista Dedrick Lai

Artist's Statement

Krista Dedrick Lai is a long time resident of Philadelphia, PA having originally moved there, from Pittsburgh, PA, to attended Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Using cut-paper or paint, she has traditionally used art to navigate and illustrate her own inner landscape. Dreams, nightmares, extreme emotions as well as private hopes and fears have typically been the subject matter for her abstract work and inspiration for her representational work. As time has gone on Krista has looked increasingly outward for inspiration, sometimes as far as millions of light-years away, in the case of her Space Exploration series, and sometimes much closer to home, as in the case of her White Privilege series. Krista lives in Philadelphia’s Point Breeze neighborhood, with her husband and young son, where she also maintains a studio. She enjoys walking around the city looking for new street art, eating chocolate, doing yoga, taking naps and, of course, making artwork.