Kristy Peet
Kristy Peet was born in Dallas, Texas and completed her undergraduate work at Austin College in Sherman, Texas and her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.
She is a large format analog photographer focusing primarily on staged images conceptually related to the internal personal state. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the US including a solo exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary.
Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Savannah College of Art and Design.
Kristy lives and works in Houston, Texas. She is currently Professor of Art at College of the Mainland.
Traces (NAT Art Residence - 05/2025)
I went to the caves to see the paintings (and they were fascinating) but I found myself more interested in the geology of the caves. Thousands of years of people were compressed into a few inches of earth. We see them as darker layers because of the carbon in us.
I’ve been feeling very nihilistic lately and the layers reminded me that everyone and everything I have ever known will wind up as a less than a millimeter of earth.
It’s nothing to feel sad about; it’s just a fact.
I started this series with the rock on a stack of photographs. The images, which the viewer cannot see, are snapshots from my life. I’m interested in the idea of nature taking over everything. The earth will completely consume everything. It’s only a matter of time.
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