Art
In 1992, Bryson participated in a group exhibition at the infamous rock venue and ex-brothel, Seattle's OK Hotel. In 1993 and 1994, her first solo art exhibitions took place on Capitol Hill. During the same time period, she was a founding member of Thommy Goes Down, "the laziest Riot Grrl band in history").
Bryson used her enforced exile in Britain to produce four solo art exhibitions, "Monsters & Monsters" (1997), "The Hyperbled Heart" (1998), "Strange" (2002) and her retrospective exhibition "Wilderness", produced by Ms. Raj Rai, in 2003. Press praise came from Diva Magazine (“Bryson’s richly textured mixed-media artwork is beautiful, unsettling and weird. A strange, tusked hermaphrodite cruises for sex amidst the tangled greenery of Nunhead Cemetery. In the other-worldly light of an icy forest, a gleaming cyborg sprawls beneath drifting snowflakes…”) and Urban 75 (“Glamorous gorgons and beautiful banshees dazzle and dance their way into your subconscious at Kathleen Bryson’s stunning art show at the Prowler Gallery, King’s X. Imagine the shamanic majesty of Norwegian spiritualist painter Frans Widerberg crossed with the punk energy of Iggy and the Stooges and you won’t even be halfway there. In a culture dominated by the tyranny of the bland, miss this vibrant and heart-warming display at the peril of your own beleaguered imagination.”).
She has since had two additional solo shows: "Lucky Charms" (2005) and "The Wolves of Candyland" (2009).
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