Artist Statements

“I create art to express what I feel, but cannot communicate in any other way.” -Kate

In her practice, Kate straddles worlds, working at the cutting edge of technology with pixels and atoms, and as primitively as cave dwellers, making marks and exploring with found materials. She views herself as a scientific artist- exploring and pushing each medium as she creates.

PAINTING
Working with oil and acrylic paints allows all facets of Kate’s being to gel. She works with color and graphic elements in abstracted forms that celebrate movement and emotion. Whether she is painting a mountainscape or complete abstraction, Kate uses unconventional materials and paint application, relishing in the development of each work as she explores.

SCULPTURE & INSTALLATION
Shape, form, and luminosity inspire Kate’s sculptural works. Primarily focusing on paper, metal, and illumination, she conceptually creates 3-dimensional structures that carry a meaning beyond their materiality.

PHOTOGRAPHY
Kate’s work with photography blurs the boundaries of realism & abstraction. She presents the ordinary in unconventional ways, elevating paper, plastic, shadows, petals, metal, and ice by transforming form and scale. The closer one looks, the more one may discover. Hidden within each limited edition is a love note: wonder, hope, restore, extend, thrive-a game of seek and find, where wonder and curiosity meet discovery and celebration. Dye-sublimation onto aluminum panels adds a sculptural element to her planar creations.

INK WASH
If sweet dreams left tangible impressions, they would shimmer with a fleeting yet wondrous feeling, blurred by misty traces of what could be. Kate’s ink paintings contain an element of this familiarity in their abstractions. She works with pigmented and metallic washes on acrylic panels and paper, creating a delicate topography infused with ambient and reflected light. The surfaces are ever changing as daylight dances across these paintings, giving them the illusion of dimensionality.

Movement of light—a sunrise, a shooting star, the dappled surface of the ocean on a summer’s day, and the sense of contented bliss she feels when she is witnessing this natural splendor inspires her. In her work, she explores the magnificence of light, profundity, and wonder. Her paintings’ luminosity evokes a sense of depth through the emanation of light seemingly from within the translucent panels and through the metallic alluvium catching the surface light.

A selection of Kate’s work delves further into the concept of luminosity. She has added lighting and found materials to the inter-layer, creating a color field that emanates from the subsurface. She also has placed a talisman into each work in this series, sending love out to the world.