Krista Dedrick-Lai is a multidisciplinary artist whose work confronts the everyday struggles of motherhood, domesticity, and being human. Through honest painterly application, the artist reveals, questions and normalizes the taboo brokenness of the every day. With a full range of bright neon marks to dark ominous brushstrokes, Dedrick-Lai negotiates the nonlinear space of healing and acceptance, perpetually carving out spaces of light in the dark, and methodically making a way forward. After earning her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Krista made Philadelphia her home and now lives and works just steps from the Italian Market with her husband and young son. In 2021 a poster Krista created for a project organized by Mural Arts and Streets Dept was collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Solo exhibitions of Krista’s work took place at The Middle Room Gallery, in Los Angeles, and Chimaera Gallery, in Philadelphia, in February and March of 2024. Threads of Transformation, a two-person exhibition with artist Margaux McAllister, will be on view at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens May 17th - July 14th, 2024.
*photo by Jamie Stow