Art That Pops: An Interview with Krista Perry | Zach Benard
With illustrations that pop in color and emit playfulness, Krista Perry achieves a range in her style that can vary between zany and spooky. “The more craziness there is to look at, the better,” Krista thinks, and that maximalist concept is certainly clear in her work. Hailing from the small town of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, she is a recent graduate of MassArt.
You may have seen her art on Threadless, where she won a competition in March 2014 for her piece ‘Pass the Catnip,’ which was “…a bunch of really odd cat heads with multiple eyes. It was just really fun. And I remember making the design and it was one of those things where I wasn’t planning the art and I just kind of made it because I wanted to have fun. It was really amazing to be able to get copies of that shirt and hold it in my hands and think, ‘not only did I make that, but now people can wear it.’ Ever since high school, I always wanted my art to be tangible and be on things that people can interact with or wear, or use as a notebook or something.”