🎨 Audrey Kral Interview
Born - City + State
Wilmington, Delaware
How did you arrive at this point in time with this current project ?Magically! Near the end of 2024, I decided to create a solo show that integrates a significant collection of recentworks into my ongoing Dreamscape series. At the same time, I was seeking the right moment to share my poetry. Venus and Victory presented the perfect opportunity, offering both the space and timing to bring these creativeelements together. We had been looking for a way to collaborate, combining our shared aesthetic, and this project beautifully brought that vision to life.
How do you feel about collaborative work ?
Every New Year, I choose a guiding word or concept to shape how I live and engage with the world. For 2025, my focus is on creative collaboration and wisdom integration. I'm thrilled to embrace opportunities to expand collaborative efforts and watch how these experiences enrich the creative journey of myself and others as the year progresses.
What keeps you motivated as an artist and compelled to look into future work ?
Sharing my artwork and poems motivates me to continue. The joy and pleasure of creating is a satisfaction that grows and expands as I experience more wonder and awe in life. I’m also driven by an endless curiosity to explore new ideas and perspectives, and the creative process itself—full of challenges and discoveries—keeps me inspired. The future holds infinite possibilities, and the excitement of exploring the interconnectedness of all things compels me to keep evolving and pushing my work further.
What statement best fits this current body of work ?
This current body of work draws inspiration from Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. Davis based the album entirely on modality, giving each performer a set of scales that defined the boundaries of their improvisation, offering them greater creative freedom within those parameters. The concept resonated deeply with me, as I often find myself drawn to the color blue—making it a kind of double entendre, where both the musical structure and my personal connection to the color inform the work.
What are you trying to tell the world about you and this art?
I want to tell the world through my art and actions that there is only One within the immense diversity of Being. We are eternal, even as we experience the constantly shifting, ever more intricate dance of life. There is no real separation anywhere; experience depends on awareness. My goal is for my art to connect people to the awareness of being and the peace found in unity, stillness, and beauty.
Who in your life inspires you ?
Everyone I meet! And especially my partner and my sister.
Do you or have you had a mentor ?
Whoah! So many mentors; too many to name them here, mostly in the realm of wisdom and contemplation.
Do you have a muse ?
Nature is my muse, especially the movement and reflections in, around, and from water. All sensations become my muse, inspiring me to explore the endless interplay between experience and expression.
Do you dream in color ?
Yes, although there are many dreams that are sensations without form or color.
Are you living the dream ?
Yes! It seems to me that we are all dreamers, creating and experiencing life through the lens of our perceptions and beliefs. What we often see as an external world may actually be a reflection of our inner landscape. The line between dreaming and living blurs when we realize that existence itself is an unfolding creation of our consciousness. Living the dream, for me, means embracing this awareness and participating fully in the beauty and mystery of life.
Who would you love to work or collaborate with ?
I would love to collaborate on a screenplay or children’s books with people who are writing unique, visionary stories for humanity—stories where we are thriving as wildly creative yet thoughtful beings. These narratives would move beyond the traditional reliance on conflict, war, or tension to drive the plot. Instead, they would celebrate cooperation, collaboration, and the limitless potential of human imagination to achieve meaningful goals and inspire positive change.
Are we born creative, or is it developed ?
Both!
If you could pick one song that best represents you, what would it be ?
A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld (Orbital Dance Mix).
If you could pick one color that resonates with you, what would it be?
A mix of alizarin crimson and phthalo green, which creates a vibrant, transparent, and gorgeously rich hue that resonates deeply with me.
If you were an inanimate object, what would best represent you ?
Lava lamp, for sure! And stained glass windows.
Do you have a favorite quote ?
I have a whole document where I collect quotes I love. Here is one:“Home, is where I want to beBut I guess I'm already there.” — Talking Heads
If you had one tagline or hashtag, what is it ?
One Love
And last but not least, when everything is said and done... What would you want your epitaph to read ?
"I’m going to dust off my stars, I’ll be right back.”
Interview by Curator David Reposar @Venus & Victory
VENUS & VICTORY x GROUNDFLOOR SF
VENUS & VICTORY is very proud to announce our new partnership with GROUNDFLOOR SF.
We are beyond grateful to have this opportunity to be curating the ART + ARTIST for 2025 at their flagship location. Each show will be approximately three months in duration with an Artist Reception. So we look forward to inviting all of our current friends, patrons and art lovers to this wonderful welcoming space.
GroundFloor SF is a Social Club also known as The Peoples Club in the very vibrant Mission District. You can gain more insights on their website:
Groundfloor SF is located at:
455 Valencia Street SF CA 94103
Please follow along as we roll out the shows for 2025 both at
VENUS & VICTORY + GROUND FLOOR SF
