Kay WalkingStick

Kay WalkingStick is a painter whose landscapes and spiritual/corporeal diptychs, as she has said, “encourage the viewer to see our shared humanity in all of its gritty, frightening, awkward, sexy, funny and beautiful commonality.” In scores of solo and group shows over the past half-century, WalkingStick has explored the aesthetic contours, in drawings, paintings, and small sculptures, of American place, memory, indigeneity, trauma, and the relationship between individual people and the land from which they come.  In 2015, WalkingStick’s work was featured in a retrospective at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian called "Kay WalkingStick/An American Artist."  The exhibit toured the U.S. through 2018, visiting  5 museums. Ms. WalkingStick was a Professor of Art at Cornell University from 1988 until her retirement in 2005. She lives & works in Easton, PA where she shares a townhouse with her husband the artist, Dirk Bach. She exhibits her work at the Charles Froelick Gallery in Portland, OR, and June Kelly Gallery in New York City, NY