Artist Statement
Aftermath Statement:
As a photographer, I've spent most of my career looking deeply into the spaces we inhabit and
exploring the idea of Home. But at the age of 31, a diagnosis of breast cancer forced me to redefine my
thinking. Faced with the nihilistic process of radical chemotherapy and surgery, my ideas of where I exist
turned inward. As the treatment broke down the physical structure in which I lived, the relationship between
the cellular self and the metaphysical self became glaringly clear. No one was there when these pictures
were made, just my dissolving ideas of self and a camera.
Process Statement
Borderline Statement:
Working with traditional film, images from the "Borderline" series employ no digital manipulation, nor are
they double exposures. The image is a distillation of how I see across the boundary between inside spaces
to outside and how they seamlessly coexist - Interior human spaces and exterior natural environments,
coinciding to create a dimensional, third reality. The union of these real and reflected images doesn’t seek to
define themselves and separate from each other. Nor do they seek to meld the two into one. They seek to
explore the fine line in between - they simply exist, squarely on The Borderline
Born in 1974 in New Jersey, Kerry Mansfield graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in photography. Shortly thereafter Kerry returned to CCA (California College of the Arts) to refine her sensibilities for space and volume by studying architecture. The combination of both fields led her back to photography where she has since explored the relationship between space, boundaries and the concept of “home”. Exhibitions of Kerry’s photographs have been mounted in galleries throughout the United States, Europe, and South America. Her work has garnered several national and international awards including the Lens Culture Single Image Award, First Place IPA in the Fine Art Professional Self-Portrait Category, the Worldwide Photography Gala First Place Storyteller Award and a spot on the Shortlist in the Professional Documentary Portrait category for the 2012 World Photography Organization (WPO) Awards. In 2012, Kerry’s Grounded work was showcased in a solo exhibition at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery in Atlanta. In 2013 she released her new series Expired featured on the New York Times LensBlog and is awaiting two solo show opportunities and a book for publication for 2014-2015. Most recently, Expired won “Best of Show” in the FILTER Photo show at the David Weinberg Gallery.