ABOUT

Kayla Rumpp is a painter, sculptor, and educator from Tennessee currently residing in Iowa City, IA while she pursues her MFA. Her work explores an interaction between color, form, and light, where shape informs color, and color informs light. Structures are often born through play and physical manipulation, and conceived through a fascination with childlike ways of making and seeing. Building blocks and popsicle sticks are often used or reimagined in the work to simulate the act of child's play and game-like manipulation. Vibrancy and value are explored through gradients and expanded by the abatement of shadows. This allows the work to exist in a transitory place where values fluctuate through different installations. Subtleties in color shifts also create a visual game that can be played through time spent investigating the pieces.