About

Kirsten Cosgrove is a contemporary fine artist residing at the Jersey Shore. She studied Special Make-Up Effects at the Tom Savini Special Makeup Fx school. In her first year working in the industry, Kirsten was featured as the Special FX artist on the Food Network's reality competition show, "Sugar Dome". She has 15 years of experience in the film, television, theatre and event industry. Kirsten has had a diverse career in the arts working in fine art foundries, various scenic shops, sculpture department for a fashion designer and a manager of the scenic department for a major NYC prop fabrication shop. Kirsten founded her own prop fabrication company, Shark Eye Studios LLC in 2023. ​

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Kirsten works traditionally in clay, using sculpture as a way to translate personal experiences into three-dimensional form. She's drawn to the slow, meticulous nature of the process—building texture, refining surfaces, and allowing form to emerge through repetition and care. The physical labor of sculpting is essential; it creates a quiet space where memory, emotion, and material come together, giving each piece both presence and meaning.

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She is endlessly inspired by the surreal hues found in nature—especially the vivid, dreamlike palettes that exist beneath the ocean’s surface. Scuba diving through coral reefs has shown her worlds where color behaves in unexpected ways, where forms shift and glow, and where reality feels just a little bit unreal. Through her work, she invites viewers to step into these amplified natural spaces—places where color feels like its own language and the familiar becomes fantastical.

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