Keddy Ann Outlaw
Bio: Keddy Ann Outlaw is a Signature Member of the National Collage Society. After indulging herself in a Bachelor’s degree in Art at SUNY Plattsburgh, she got practical and completed a Master’s degree in Library Science at SUNY Albany.
She managed a public library in Houston for the duration of her career. During that time, she had poems, short stories and book reviews published in local and national magazines.
Keddy started making collages in high school. Later, she studied collage and printmaking at the both the Houston Art League and the Glassell School of Art (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston). Her mixed media art includes monoprinted, silk screened and relief-printed papers.
Keddy enjoys entering juried shows and is a member of the Visual Arts Alliance Exhibitions committee in Houston, TX. She has won cash awards from the National Collage Society. Her work has been in shows at the Houston Jung Center, the Houston Art League, the Art Car Museum (Houston), Archway Gallery (Houston), arthouse (Austin, TX) and the Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI. Her solo show of collages appeared on the Caladan Gallery site in 2011. Her art has been published in Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine and UU World, as well as on the cover of the Houston Jung Center catalog.
Artist Statement: Why collage? I could say that like most collage artists, I like repurposing found imagery and making something new. Most of all, I find great freedom in collage. I find complexity, connection and contradiction.
Most of my collages strive for harmony. I enjoy the journey from the chaos of a tabletop covered in scraps of paper towards a balanced composition. For me, collage exists as a mysterious land beneath our ordinary lives. It is an “otherworld” where anything can happen. I sometimes think of my collages as picture poems.
Creativity is not always logical and calls up my powers of intuition and playfulness. Perhaps I just enjoy rearranging the contents of the entire world! Especially in my black and white collages, I am pleased when the collages have some sense of being eternal. I don’t want to live in a world where everything can be explained.
I have studied printmaking and have found that adding printed papers brings in a dash of the artist’s hand.
My collage art is influenced by magical realism, Jungian psychology, American history, feminism and a lifelong love of symbols.
Find Keddy on instagram: @collagista_outlaw
