PLOT

Lazy Eye Gallery presents:
Kristen Jean Wheatley
PLOT
When: August 31 – September 29, 2024
Opening Reception: August 31 st , 4 – 6 pm
Where: 57275 Canterbury St, Yucca Valley, CA 92284
Gallery Hours: By appointment only

Kristen Jean is an artist working with activity, circulation, and endurance. She explores the ways we move and the way the world moves around us. By carefully observing both natural and man-made systems, she tracks and responds through artistic production. The works included in PLOT trace walking paths, waterway currents, and wind patterns in an effort to learn their ways. Audiences are encouraged to look around and question how they consume, interact with, and even depend on the movement of resources, people, information, and themselves.

Kristen Jean Wheatley
Kristen was raised in rural Southwest Virginia alongside her five siblings, where she tested herself physically through performing arts and sport. An interest in visual art led her to Virginia Commonwealth University, where she received her BFA in Craft and Material Studies. While studying, Kristen was awarded a Dean’s Research Grant and scholarships to attend Penland School of Craft and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Her work has been shown at the Anderson, Gallery 263, the Hammer Museum Pop-Up, and through the Yucca Valley Public Art Program. In 2024, she was awarded a Visual Artist Residency at Vermont Studio Center. Kristen currently lives and works in Joshua Tree, CA.