Kathy Moss-Reeves likes to keep things simple regarding her art. Cut the bullshit. Feel something. Tell a story and make it come alive.
Kathy started making puppets at age seven. Charged admission. When puppets no longer held her interest, she began painting rocks. For profit. Every rock had a story.
It wasn't long before she moved into large scale performance art. Believing her mother’s couch looked good enough to eat, she spread mustard over its entirety. It was not as delicious as she imagined. Artists understand a setback. It forges them.
Her enterprising led to high school drawing and painting classes. Enough college to earn two degrees in art. Museums, galleries, awards of distinction, best in show. Thirty-two years of teaching art at every academic level, from kindergarten to grad school.
Kathy lives and paints in South Philadelphia. Beautiful and honest people. Proud brick buildings and narrow streets. Little reminders everywhere of stories yet to be told.
She works every day in her studio. There are no couches here.