ARTIST STATEMENT
Kirk Chernansky is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Design. Following graduation, she worked for 20 years in advertising art direction that took her to New York where she honed conceptual skills at the School of Visual Arts. In 1995 she made the leap to Social Work acquiring a Masters Degree from the University of Chicago and in 2007 began taking courses at Northwestern University to obtain a certificate in art therapy. Kirk’s artwork reflects a synthesis of two careers using the skills and tools of an artist to convey insights about change inspired by her work as a therapist.
This piece is a moment captured while touring Slovakia. The warm welcome of our overseas family significantly influenced the art that followed. It is presented here with the hope of conveying heartfelt feelings of oneness with a world both foreign and familiar.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kirk’s artwork has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Center of Arlington, An Art Place Inc. Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, North Lakeside Cultural Center and ARC Gallery, Unity’s Gallery on Thome, Bei Koc Gallery in Hannover, Germany and at the Reuter Gallery in Berlin, Germany. She wrote and illustrated her first publication entitled I-Ching Diary 2020, Growing through Change in the Age of Corona. As a published author, her first press release describes her as an artist and writer who “encourages readers to cultivate a deeper connection with their inner sage or divine presence, whatever form it may take.”
© Kirk Chernansky