About

Kristie Means was born in Concord, California and grew up in Clayton, California where she spent her formative years. Architecture school took her to Eugene, Oregon, where she obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Oregon with a BA in History and minor in Architecture. The next decade she moved around a lot exploring the world and experiencing other cultures. Kristie has lived in several places including Russia, Washington, Florida, Texas, and New York. She now resides with her husband and two children in Fort Worth, Texas. She is inspired by her creator God who has put in her a desire to dive into uncovering the good, the true and the beautiful. It is through acrylics that she has tapped into a way to communicate the message of love, brokenness, healing, and hope. Working in both quick and slow movements with her brush, it is a continual play of addition and subtraction. She has also worked in powdered graphite and water creating art with a lot of movement. She has taken some community college art classes, but is mostly self-taught. While living in New York, Kristie studied under renowned artist, Makoto Fujimura, and interned at the Dillion Gallery in Chelsea. Kristie had a studio for several years at Pump Project in East Austin where she exhibited her work. When her son was born 10 years ago, she stepped away from her art to be a full-time mother. A few years later after giving birth to her daughter and her son’s intense therapy for autism it became nearly impossible to find time to create. Two years ago, with both children in school, she went back to the canvas, converted her garage into a studio, and began birthing a more mature work.