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Mayme Kratz

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Mayme Kratz’s work is emblematic, standing at the intersection of her life and her artistic practice. Possessing a deep love of the natural world, she has hiked and camped in many of the wild places and National Parks of the Southwest. These desert walks renew her sense of awe in the face of the enormity of the landscapes, the ephemeral radiance of its harsh environment and the delicate calibrations of these fragile ecosystems. They also provide her with material: seedpods, insect wings, cactus roots, bleached animal bones, leaves, grasses and flowers. Carefully organizing these organic elements into shapes, patterns and compositions, she casts them in resin.

Her work immortalizes and celebrates that which we all too often dismiss as detritus and reveals a luminous beauty in the ignored, overlooked and stepped-on. Her precise formal designs lead the viewer to contemplate the infinitely large, calling to mind the cosmos of stars and planets, as well as the impossibly small, alluding to cellular and crystalline structures. It is at once deeply personal and utterly universal.

Kratz apprenticed with artist James Hubbell in San Diego in her early twenties but is largely self-taught, having spent decades developing and perfecting her techniques. She was awarded the Arlene and Morton Scult Contemporary Forum Art Award by the Phoenix Art Museum in 2010. Selected collections include Phoenix Art Museum, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Art, and San Jose Museum of Art.

Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 32, 2022, resin, Cassia on panel, 36 by 36 inches
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 32
Mayme Kratz - I Live My Life 3, 2020, resin, texas mountain laurel seeds, carbon on panel, 72 by 72 inches
Mayme Kratz - I Live My Life 3
Mayme Kratz - Long After the Echo 11, 2018, resin, shells and bone fragments of fish, deer, birds and snakes on panel, 48 by 48 inches
Mayme Kratz - Long After the Echo 11
Mayme Kratz - Knot 352, 2021, resin and spurge on panel, 12 by 12 inches
Mayme Kratz - Knot 352
Mayme Kratz - Blue Moon 7 (SOLD), 2022, resin, seeds, bones, shells, cicada wings on panel, 24 by 24 inches
Mayme Kratz - Blue Moon 7 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Ghost Forest, 2013, pigment and natural items in resin, 96" x 1.5" diameter each
Mayme Kratz - Ghost Forest
Mayme Kratz - Fish Skull Dwelling, 2021, resin and fish skull, 5.25 x 3 x 3 inches
Mayme Kratz - Fish Skull Dwelling
Mayme Kratz - Memory Blocks (various), 2021, resin with natural materials, sizes vary, approximately 2" x 2" x 2" each
Mayme Kratz - Memory Blocks (Various)
Mayme Kratz - Hive, 2015, graphite transfer on gampi paper, 9" x 9" framed
Mayme Kratz - Hive
Mayme Kratz - Beetle Map, 2014, graphite transfer on rice paper, 10.25" x 13" framed
Mayme Kratz - Beetle Map
Mayme Kratz - Juniper Study (SOLD), 2018, juniper and resin on panel, 12 x 12 inches
Mayme Kratz - Juniper Study (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Night of Embers Study (SOLD), 2018, resin, Juniper branches, berries, mistletoe debris on panel, 12 by 12 inches
Mayme Kratz - Night of Embers Study (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Starry Night (New Mexico Landscape) (SOLD), 2021, resin with natural materials, 17" x 15" each panel (triptych)
Mayme Kratz - Starry Night (New Mexico Landscape) (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 24 (SOLD), 2021, resin and Chamisa, 18" x 18"
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 24 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Violet Bloom (SOLD), 2020, resin, poppy and hesperaloe pods on panel, 18 x 18 inches
Mayme Kratz - Violet Bloom (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Twilight Study 2 (SOLD), 2021, resin, poppy and hesperaloe pods, 11" x 11"
Mayme Kratz - Twilight Study 2 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 23 (SOLD), 2021, resin and Broom Snake Weed, 36" x 36"
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 23 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Circle Dream 85 (SOLD), 2021, resin, cross sections from deer metacarpal bone, fish spine vertebrae, rattlesnake ribs and vertebrae on panel, 48 by 48 inches
Mayme Kratz - Circle Dream 85 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Hunger Moon (SOLD), 2021, resin, moth, snake, sand dollar, cicada wings, deer bones, poppy seeds, hollyhock seeds, anad fish vertebrae on panel, 60 by 60 inches
Mayme Kratz - Hunger Moon (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Long After the Echo 18 (SOLD), 2021, resin, shells, feathers, rattlesnake ribs and vertebrae on panel, 60 by 60 inches
Mayme Kratz - Long After the Echo 18 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 19 (SOLD), 2021, resin, rabbit brush on panel, 48 by 48 inches
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 19 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Root Moon 2 (SOLD), 2021, resin and roots on panel, 16 by 16 inches
Mayme Kratz - Root Moon 2 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Circle Dream 77 (SOLD), 2020, resin and Hesperaloe seeds on panel, 48 by 47.5 inches
Mayme Kratz - Circle Dream 77 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 18 (SOLD), 2020, resin, chamomile on panel, 36 x 36 inches
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 18 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - The Vastness We Do Not Enter (SOLD), 2018, resin, deer bone, snake ribs and vertebrae, grass seeds, juniper berries, rabbit brush seeds, bobcat bone on panel, 60 by 120 inches
Mayme Kratz - The Vastness We Do Not Enter (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Sometimes the Darkness, 2013, resin and magnolia cross sections on panel, 60 by 60 inches
Mayme Kratz - Sometimes the Darkness
Mayme Kratz - Circle Dream 74 (SOLD), 2018, resin, deer bone, snake ribs and vertebrae on panel, 48 by 48 inches
Mayme Kratz - Circle Dream 74 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Ancient Light (SOLD), 2018, resin, Navajo tea, bobcat and snake bone on panel, 24 by 66 inches
Mayme Kratz - Ancient Light (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Circle Dream 75 (SOLD), 2018, resin, deer bone and teeth, cottonwood and juniper berries, rabbit brush and snakeweed roots on panel, 48 by 48 inches
Mayme Kratz - Circle Dream 75 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - In the Field of Spirit (SOLD), 2018, resin, rabbit brush, rattlesnake ribs on panel, 48 by 60 inches
Mayme Kratz - In the Field of Spirit (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 7 (SOLD), 2018, resin, Broom Snakeweed from Colorado plateau on panel, 36 by 36 inches
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 7 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Heart of Light (SOLD), 2018, resin, foliage, from Colorado plateau on panel, 48 by 60 inches
Mayme Kratz - Heart of Light (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 8 (SOLD), 2018, resin, Dysodia bush on panel, 40 by 40 inches
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 8 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 9 (SOLD), 2018, resin, Snakeweed from Colorado plateau on panel, 36 by 36 inches
Mayme Kratz - Vanishing Light 9 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Root Moon (SOLD), 2018, resin, Snakeweed, rabbit brush roots on panel, 12 by 12 inches
Mayme Kratz - Root Moon (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Cedar Moon (SOLD), 2018, resin, cottonwood branches and leaves, juniper and cedar foliage, bones, moth wings, on panel, 12 by 12 inches
Mayme Kratz - Cedar Moon (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Grasshopper Moon (SOLD), 2018, resin, grasshopper exoskeleton, seeds, leaves, branches from Colorado plateau on panel, 12 by 12 inches
Mayme Kratz - Grasshopper Moon (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Absent Moon (SOLD), 2018, resin, Juniper, pine and cedar branches, leaves, seeds on panel, 12 by 12 inches
Mayme Kratz - Absent Moon (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Summer Bloom 4 (SOLD), 2018, resin, poppy pods on panel, 14 by 14 inches
Mayme Kratz - Summer Bloom 4 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Twilight Study (SOLD), 2018, resin, poppy pods and hesperaloe pods on panel, 12 by 12 inches
Mayme Kratz - Twilight Study (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Spring Bloom 6 (SOLD), 2017, resin, poppy pods on panel, 24 by 24 inches
Mayme Kratz - Spring Bloom 6 (SOLD)
Mayme Kratz - Into the Face of Stars (SOLD) 2016, resin, shells, bobcat claws, snake ribs and vertebrae on panel, 60 by 108 inches
Mayme Kratz - Into the Face of Stars (SOLD)

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