Katelyn Alain Painting News Blog

I See The Moon, Milavec Hakimi Gallery, NYC

2012-01-03T13:55:00.010-05:00

Jan 12th - Feb 19th

Opening Reception: January 12, 6-9 PM

Milavec Hakimi Gallery, 51 Cooper Square, New York, NY map

Come see the paintings I've created over the past three years on display in I See The Moon, a group show featuring Katelyn Alain, Dina Brodsky, Scott Kahn, Sabrina Marques, Christopher Saunders, and Ryan Scully.

Images: Gowanus Open Studios

2011-10-19T17:54:00.000-04:00

Thank you to all who stopped by!

Gowanus Open Studios Oct. 15+16

2011-10-14T10:51:00.001-04:00

Visit my studio in Brooklyn this weekend as part of the Gowanus Open Studios! Map http://g.co/maps/fmbt3

Enter at 75 10th Street (adjacent to Lowe's) or 98 9th Street. The doors will all be open so just come on in 12-6PM. See you then!

Read more about it in this article.

The Dreamer, 12x12", oil on panel

2011-08-29T17:16:00.009-04:00

In the collection of the Ten Words And One Shot founder in Germany.

August

2011-08-17T19:36:00.001-04:00

4 x 5 inches

oil on specimen photographs

And Then There Was A Perfect Silence

2011-08-04T16:58:00.003-04:00

36x48 inches
oil on canvas

(hi-res)

Work In Progress Shots

2011-06-17T16:07:00.008-04:00

And then there was a perfect silence.

36" x 48"
oil on canvas

Dreams of McQueen

2011-06-02T11:08:00.000-04:00

24x36 inches

Oil on Linen

Selected for Brooklyn Art Project Publication

2011-05-23T14:01:00.000-04:00

100 BAP Members were selected by guest curator Samantha Levin to have their work featured in the premiere issue of the BAP Quarterly coming out this summer!

Levin Says, "Choosing art for the first issue of the BAP Quarterly was no easy task. There were literally hundreds of excellent entries from around the world to choose from. In the end, I chose an eclectic mixture of works that evinced a mixture of high technical chops, alluring concept and great composition."

I am humbled and excited to see it! 'Awaiting' and 'Ever Onward To The Sea' will both be included.

Top 100 Finalist in The Power Of Self

2011-05-20T09:44:00.002-04:00

I am very pleased to be a top 100 finalist in The Power of Self competition! Congrats to the grand prize winner, Stephen O'Donnell, who won a year of his life paid for! That's a truly amazing prize.

http://www.artistswanted.org

Featured Artist

2011-05-20T09:37:00.001-04:00

ArtistADay.com featured my work and by doing so put my paintings in front of a very wide audience of art appreciators and collectors. It's a real boon to be featured. Thanks to the people over at ArtistADay.com for selecting me!

Elizabeth Erlanger Memorial Award

2011-05-19T13:30:00.000-04:00

I am pleased to announce that my painting, 'If I Too Am Nature,' has won the Elizabeth Erlanger Memorial Award by the National Association of Women Artists.

See it at the 122nd Annual Exhibition
May 3 – May 31, 2011

Opening Reception: Thurs. May 19, 2011, 6-8pm

Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery
417 Lafayette Street
New York, New York

April Work In Progress

2011-04-22T18:53:00.001-04:00

24x36"
oil on linen

Are you a New York artist?

2011-04-05T14:41:00.002-04:00

It was recently suggested to me by a wonderful curator, Kimberly Marrero, to upload my work to P.S.1 MoMA's Studio Visit. After I did, I thought it would be nice to post the same image of my studio building here.

It's a pleasant picture! I hadn't thought of it looking so calm until I took the pic. For the real Brooklyn experience though, do picture this: intermittent rumbling train on that bridge overhead with honking horn; construction workers; trucks beep-beeping in and out of the loading docks; friendly UPS man! Pigeons. Now you have a better idea of what it's like to arrive at my building! And thank goodness for the inner sanctuary and calm of my studio space.

How It Is Now

2011-03-22T15:29:00.002-04:00

Click for larger view of Right Side detail.

96" x 60"
Oil on Canvas, diptych

Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again

2011-03-16T13:46:00.003-04:00

Metrocard Paintings

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 17th, 5 to 9 pm

Sloan Fine Art
128 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002

Exhibition: March 18 to 26, 2011

http://sloanfineart.com/index.html

Words of Dostoevsky

2011-03-15T15:15:00.001-04:00

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments. And all the time your soul is craving and longing for something else. And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking in these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him.

-Fyodor Dostoevsky

'BEAST' opening Saturday, March 12, 6-10pm

2011-03-11T16:22:00.000-05:00



	Brooklyn Artists Gym

	168 7th st., 3rd floor Brooklyn, NY

More Info	Participating artists: Katelyn Alain, Jonathan Beer, Tim Bush, Nina Carelli, Pandora Castelli, Eugenia Chun, Amanda Crone, Alex Confer, Tim Connor, Chris Esposito, Imelda Fagin, Giovanni Forlino, Ed Herman, Shawn Huckins, Supina Kenney, Jason Martin, Guy Nelson, Silviu Nica, Maya Pindyck, Hannah Robinett, Jim Shirrey, Danielle Thillet, Rachel Van Pelt, Blair Waters, Ann Williams, Chen Zhang.

How It Is Now

2011-03-08T20:52:00.000-05:00

Detail area.

96 x 60 inches
Oil on Canvas, diptych

Feb. Work In Progress

2011-02-08T10:14:00.000-05:00

Detail area of 60x96" oil on canvas

Art & Fear = Paint & Progress

2011-01-20T15:24:00.001-05:00

I'm beginning a new painting in a new series. Perhaps it's the second painting in this series. I have a very specific creative process when I'm starting a new work. It involves an onslaught of imagery flitting through my mind, contemplation, waiting for that imagery to coagulate, and a sort of useful procrastination as the need to create builds into a frenzy of energy. But that energy floats anxiously in an ocean of fear as I finally touch paintbrush to white canvas. These marks seem so crucial as they set the stage for the rest of the painting as I respond to the marks I've just made- and on and on until it's done. Even though these marks will ultimately be hidden, it's this stage that can be the most nervewracking.

Let's be clear. I panic. Every time. I convince myself I don't know what I'm doing. But I have some confidence. By now I know it's just part of my process. And ultimately it's the fear and the unknown that keeps me going- because it's discovery that I'm really after. The chance to learn from what comes out of this process and to see something that I couldn't put words to if I tried. And thus it begins. Again.

"Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much cares whether you do, and for which there may be neither audience nor reward. Making the work you want to make means setting aside these doubts so that you may see clearly what you have done, and thereby see where to go next. Making the work you want to make means finding nourishment within the work itself. This is not the Age of Faith, Truth, and Certainty."
--- from the book Art & Fear: Observations On The Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Ever Onward To The Sea

2010-12-15T23:10:00.002-05:00

60x96 inches, oil on canvas (diptych)

Latest Stage

2010-12-10T22:31:00.000-05:00

This one's taking longer than anticipated as I'm trying very hard to push myself forward. Right now I'm attempting to unite the right side with the left side while maintaining a sense that the right side is falling apart as a 'pictorial scene.' I'd like more abstract elements to answer to the left side. More intuition. More randomness. More perception than concrete understanding. I want it to fall apart into shapes that I comprehend yet can't place. An aberration of the truth. Why is this taking so long? A painter's dilemma I guess. The usual struggle.

Work in Progress

2010-12-02T19:59:00.000-05:00

Detail section of
60x96" oil on canvas.

New work coming soon

2010-10-15T14:59:00.000-04:00

This is how I paint.

Inner World, Outer self

2010-10-05T13:05:00.000-04:00

18x24"
Oil on Linen

Study for A Grand Farewell

2010-09-13T18:23:00.000-04:00

Oil on Linen
20x30"

Featured In Art and Fiction Journal

2010-09-12T21:20:00.005-04:00

I am excited to announce my work has been published in the Autumn 2010 edition of The Battered Suitcase put out by Vagabondage Press. http://www.vagabondagepress.com/

The Battered Suitcase can be purchased in a few different forms (as a coffee table book/ the art only edition/ as a download.) It can also be viewed online for free.

Vagabondage Press

Awaiting

2010-08-24T20:27:00.004-04:00

48x60"
oil on canvas
(click to see larger)

Featured at Ten Words And One Shot

2010-08-09T13:11:00.005-04:00

I was just featured at the site Ten Words and One Shot. I am excited to have been asked to participate - it's a real compliment to be included with such high caliber artists.Visit and get a chance to peek into some fabulous artist studios and get some insight into their brains!

http://tenwordsandoneshot.com/

If I Too Am Nature

2010-07-12T19:20:00.001-04:00

24x30"
Oil on Linen

TWO fantastic new group shows in Santa Fe and New York!

2010-06-20T23:39:00.013-04:00

"Naked" group show July 1-30, 2010

Opening: Thursday, July 1, 2010 from 6-8 PM
Skotia Gallery
150 West Marcy Street Ste 103
Santa Fe, NM
MAP
Website

CLICK HERE FOR FULL ONLINE CATALOG:
http://www.skotiagallery.com/uploads/swf/NAKED/movie.swf

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"Remnants" group show curated by Michelle Doll and Lisa Lebofsky

Opening: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 from 7-10 PM
Fuse Gallery
93 2nd Ave (between 5th & 6th Sts, 2nd Ave stop on the F)
New York, NY
MAP
Website

Participating Artists (check out this list!):
Katelyn Alain, Melissa Anderson, Carrie-Ann Bracco, Charis Carmichael Braun, Dina Brodsky, Maya Brodsky, Daniel Brusky, Lyndsea Cochrane, Tim Daly, Bonnie DeWitt, Michelle Doll, Peter Drake, Samuel Evensen, Debra Goertz, Kathy Goodell, Jane Hamill, Jim Harris, Paul Hazelton, Catherine Howe, Caitlin Hurd, John Jacobsmeyer, Alan Bur Johnson, Christian Johnson, Michael Kagan, Alex Kanevsky, Karl Koett, Bryan Leboeuf, Lisa Lebofsky, Amy Mahnick, Alyssa Monks, Cory Morgenstein, Tun Myaing, John Nickle, Linnea Paskow, Rafael Perez, Jennifer Presant, Jean Pierre Roy, Kristen Schiele, Charlotte Schulz, Julia Schwadron, Viviane Silvera, Damian Stamer, Melanie Vote, Mitra Walter, and Eric White

Observing Culpability

2010-06-15T00:00:00.009-04:00

36x48"
oil on canvas

Volume Black Artist Series '10 Interview

2010-06-01T13:46:00.002-04:00

Katelyn Alain from Volume Black on Vimeo.

Ambivalence

2010-05-31T23:53:00.003-04:00

18x24", oil on linen

Masters of Merriment @ Volume Black, NYC

2010-04-22T10:32:00.004-04:00

Opening Friday April 30

6-9PM

929 Broadway (Flatiron District)

Volume Black Website

Traversing 9th Street

2010-04-15T19:40:00.001-04:00

Oil on Canvas
58x40"

9th Street Work In Progress

2010-04-07T11:10:00.011-04:00

Oil Bar on Mylar Study 2

2010-04-07T10:58:00.000-04:00

and detail.

Oil Study on Mylar

2010-03-20T00:19:00.003-04:00

For those that I haven't updated in a while, I've moved from Los Angeles to New York City. Relocating is quite an elaborate process and I've been pleasantly offline for some time. I like it here. It's like I've lived here my whole life.

Happy Spring!

Katelyn

Small study

2010-01-20T22:00:00.002-05:00

12x12 "

Oil on wood panel

Alone In Arctic Waters

2009-12-31T13:34:00.003-05:00

48x60"
Oil on Canvas

The Last Painting Of 2009

2009-12-31T02:00:00.000-05:00

It's been exactly two months since my last post. How did that time go by so quickly?! What have I been doing with myself? Well, I spent an inordinately long time recovering from my show and the time leading up to it. I've never been so alone in an empty studio as that first week back in Los Angeles after my opening in Santa Fe. None of the paintings I had surrounded myself with were in my studio and I felt an immense loss. It was as if I had birthed these children and then had them taken from me. Unprepared for that sense of grief, I didn't know how to create again for some time.

Then at some point in November I got going again. I attempted some small works, I experimented, I made failures, I left things half finished, but at least I was working. In December I moved to a fresh canvas in the 48x60 size that I had been working in. I know it's not good for an artist to be 'comfortable,' but I needed to revisit it. And that brings me to now. I've just completed that painting and will post it.

The year as a whole has been a great year for me and for my painting career. I worked really hard, I had my first real solo show in a great gallery, my first article in an art magazine, even unexpectedly making the cover of a different art magazine- and I sold paintings. Overall I'd say it was an amazing year for me. And when I consider the difficult economy, the state of the art world in general, and my numerous moments of panick when I was sure I'd never get the work done on time and disaster was surely imminent---I can sigh a huge breath of relief that 2009 is over.

Now I can turn to a new year and make new goals for myself that I can mock and laugh at - my audacity! I can look at where I'd like my life to be and make changes. This will be a year of new places and many changes. And with change comes a renewed sense of life and adventure!

Happy 2010 to all who may stop in and read this.

Peace and love,

Katelyn

On Figure Painting

2009-10-30T15:21:00.001-04:00

Today I picked up one of my favorite studio books as I sat pondering my next painting. These words could not more clearly articulate my thinking and position on painting as of late, and its utter importance in light of our newly abbreviated attention spans via the 24 hour news cycle, the pure overload of twitter one-liners, and the facebook status update.

It reminded me of how easy it is to connect with history and humanity just by standing in front of one great painting in a museum and reacting to it. These thoughts make me wonder what the constant onslaught of mostly mundane online sharing really has to offer, and how it will change the information we compile to understand the world.

Anyway, this is just a small snippet, but I felt as though these words were my own:

Most artists who have chosen to concentrate on painting seem in agreement that painting offers an antidote to the rat-tat-tat of images that are shot at us from every corner of our daily lives. Paintings create pauses in life, and offer distillations of subjects rather than unconnected snapshots. We experience the world as if it were a painting being completed -- multiple views are built up over time to become fused in our memory. We don't see in the present, but through knowledge compiled in both the recent and the distant past. We don't understand the world through a series of frozen moments seen out of context and subjectively cropped, divested of meaning.

-Charlotte Mullins, from her book Painting People, Figure Painting Today. Buy it.

The Age of Illuminated Phenomena Installation Shots

2009-10-14T19:42:00.006-04:00

The opening of my show at Skotia Gallery was a dream come true! And it was a gorgeous autumn weekend in Santa Fe...the aspens up in the mountains were turning a magnificent shade of yellow.

Visit the gallery and see the individual paintings online here: Skotia Gallery

Featured in American Art Collector Magazine

2009-10-07T17:50:00.003-04:00

Visit Skotia Gallery online to view the paintings in my solo exhibition. And please visit the gallery in person to view the show through October 16, 2009!

Pick up your copy of American Art Collector today!

(Click text to enlarge.)

Featured Artist on Brooklyn Art Project October 2009

2009-10-07T17:25:00.001-04:00

Find more images like this on Brooklyn Art Project

Solo Exhibition OCT 2 - 16, 2009

2009-08-21T14:19:00.022-04:00

As many of you know, I've been painting non-stop for my first solo show, The Age Of Illuminated Phenomena, coming up at Skotia Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. The opening night will be from 5:30-7:30 on Friday October 2 and the show runs through October 16. Visit the gallery online: http://www.skotiagallery.com/

And!

The October 2009 issue of American Art Collector magazine includes a fabulous article on my work (p.156-57).

Art Ltd. Magazine included my painting, Fluid Motion, on it's cover in the Sept/Oct issue! (Bottom row, center.)

Progress Of A Painting

2009-07-20T18:16:00.009-04:00

Underpainting. Something I don't often do.

New Painting June 2009

2009-07-08T18:59:00.005-04:00

48x60"
Oil on Canvas
Self-Portrait

American Art Collector Magazine

2009-05-08T14:05:00.003-04:00

The May issue of American Art Collector magazine features Skotia Gallery as one of the top galleries to see in Sante Fe. Included is a half page image of my painting!

Stop by Borders or Barnes & Noble and check it out.

links:
American Art Collector Mag
Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe

Grand Opening of Skotia Gallery in Santa Fe

2009-04-24T17:29:00.015-04:00

And you are invited! I hear there will be champagne, music, and good times.

Friday May 1st 2009

5-8 pm

Skotia Gallery
150 W. Marcy Street Ste 103
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
www.skotiagallery.com

April Work in Progress

2009-04-16T00:31:00.004-04:00

48x60"
oil on canvas

New Painting 3.31

2009-03-31T20:00:00.002-04:00

48x60"
Oil on Canvas

(click to enlarge crop)

New Work in Progress

2009-03-12T19:49:00.001-04:00

Detail of 48x60"
not yet titled

Untitled

2009-03-12T18:42:00.004-04:00

12x12"
oil on panel

'My New Country' Opening Saturday

2009-01-29T20:49:00.009-05:00

I have work in a show juried by Rita Gonzales, curator Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

'My New Country' opens this Saturday
Jan. 31, 2009 from 6-9PM (show runs until Feb. 27, 2009)

Gallery 825
825 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

View Google Map

News!

2009-01-25T20:47:00.008-05:00

Wow. I have had so much going on since I moved to LA that I haven't posted much on my blog. Sorry about that! The update:

I am pleased to announce that in addition to working with Stricoff Fine Art in New York, I have signed on with a new gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Skotia Gallery is opening in May 2009 with an amazing roster of established and emerging artists including Daniel Sprick, Steve Huston, and Ray Turner among others.

Skotia Gallery has a two page spread in the February edition of Southwest Art Magazine with one full page given to my recent painting 'Girl Running.' My work will also be included in the Santa Fe Collectors Guide coming out this spring as well as in The Santa Fean Magazine.

I will be having my first solo show with the gallery in October of 2009 (opening Friday October 2 - so plan ahead.) I'd love to see you there!

Skotia Gallery
150 W. Marcy Street ste 103
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

Girl Running

2008-10-30T20:39:00.004-04:00

48x60"
oil on canvas

Strikingly similar to 'Speed Empowerment,' this painting is actually part of a new series I am working on that is more about fear and running than empowerment (in origin anyway). I'll see how the paintings develop, but there is an underlying interest in 'the chase' as well as 'the search.' Take that any way you like.

Latest pic shows close up/some changes to the face.

Study for New Painting

2008-09-11T18:26:00.004-04:00

Conte and charcoal on Mylar
8x8"

Welcome to LA

2008-09-10T22:47:00.003-04:00

54x54" oil on canvas

(and detail)

12x12"
Oil on Mylar on Wood - Study

Blab! And Other Openings at Bergamot

2008-09-07T00:21:00.004-04:00

Saturday night was such a busy opening night. This was my first real taste of Bergamot Station mad- house-craziness. Blab! was opening at the same time as( at least) 10 other shows.
And we had to park really far away so as not to deal with drunken parking lot insanity. Overall it was a pretty fun night. At left are pics of artist Ryan Heshka and I as well as his girlfriend Mirinda (blue dress) and I at the Blab! show. Blab! Fun!

New Work In Progress : (detail)

2008-09-02T19:33:00.001-04:00

Self-Portrait 54x54"

Touring Galleries In My Hood

2008-08-14T18:07:00.000-04:00

Best of the evening: Black Maria Gallery in Atwater Village had a show of Jennybird Alcantara and Craig LaRotonda's paintings. (That's me talking to Jennybird in the striped shirt.)

'Looky See' show at Ben Maltz Gallery

2008-07-28T00:35:00.005-04:00

Another beautiful group show curated by Meg Linton. Fred Stonehouse was back in town for the opening. His work is humorous and fun- and always unique. I'm happy I had the opportunity to work with him.

The after party was very LA with an outdoor bar leading down to a swimming pool (we left before anyone was drunk enough to jump in). Good times.

Featured artist on artreview.com

2008-07-24T20:11:00.008-04:00

Back from NYC in time for more openings in LA

2008-07-22T14:11:00.004-04:00

I stopped in at Corey Helford Gallery on Saturday to see The Inky Dreadfuls before going across the street to Koplin Del Rio to see the Laguna College MFA and Mentor group show (it was hard to tell which was which).
I ended at Billy Shire Fine Art to see Shawn Barber's realist portraits of tattoo artists before calling it a night.

Evening of Art Openings

2008-06-30T14:11:00.006-04:00

This Saturday's art-going consisted of:

Angles Gallery where Eva Struble was having her first LA show (though she is currently residing in Barcelona)...

Track 16 where Jeremy Lipking's exquisite realist paintings still made me long for a unique interpretation of experience...

Richard Heller where Victoria Reynolds showed her gruesome yet playful paintings of raw meat...

Mark Moore Gallery where I met Ali Smith, and several other Bergamot Station openings... ultimately ending the night at

Corey Helford Gallery with the Carlos Ramos show where I was happy to meet Carlos and also Korin Faught- a sweet figure painter that I admire (shown top left).

Juxtapoz Retrospective Opening at Laguna Art Museum

2008-06-23T14:47:00.018-04:00

The opening of "In The Land Of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor" proved quite entertaining and Fred Stonehouse introduced me to a lot of great people including Gary Baseman (also pictured left).

Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong made an appearance. That picture cred and more about the Juxtapoz show here.

Relocation: Los Angeles

2008-06-19T19:22:00.005-04:00

Hey everyone,

I have been enjoying getting to know LA including the access to major art collections and the many emerging and established galleries (not to mention the weather)! There seems to be a wonderful 'vibe' for figure painting and I'm excited to get to know the other artists and enthusiasts.

On a side note: I started a little blog called LA Painter where I'm posting other artists/paintings in LA that are currently on view. It is partly for me to keep track, but maybe you'll enjoy it too and share your opinions.

Looking forward to painting and posting for you again soon,

Katelyn

My MFA Show Gallery Installation

2008-05-05T15:19:00.012-04:00

Early Opening Pics

2008-05-03T15:35:00.001-04:00

Discovering Delirium : A Master of Fine Arts Exhibition

2008-04-09T21:52:00.016-04:00

May 2 - 14, 2008
Opening Reception on Gallery Night

Friday May 2 from 6-9 PM

Memorial Union Gallery
University of Wisconsin-Madison

800 Langdon Street, Madison, WI

Taking Control

2008-04-07T22:18:00.003-04:00

48x48"
Oil on Canvas

Untitled IV

2008-04-06T21:00:00.000-04:00

12 x 12 x 1.5" Mixed Media: Oil Pastel Drawing, Mylar, Oil Paint, Nails, Wood Panel.

The Road Less Traveled

2008-04-06T20:55:00.006-04:00

48x60"
Oil on Canvas

Remembering Exactly How it Was

2008-04-06T17:52:00.005-04:00

48"x60" oil on canvas

Untitled II

2008-04-01T14:49:00.003-04:00

Mixed Media: Oil Pastel on Paper, Mylar, Oil Paint, Tape, Glue, Wood Panel.

12" x 12" x 1.5"

Taking The Long Way

2008-03-14T19:11:00.011-04:00

48x60"

Untitled III

2008-03-10T14:55:00.003-04:00

Oil on Wood Panel 12 x 12 x 1.5"

The Expedition

2008-02-29T16:32:00.008-05:00

48"x60" oil on canvas

Small Self-Portrait

2008-02-22T21:58:00.006-05:00

A collage of sorts. Oil pastel drawing on paper, covered with cut mylar, tape, and painted on top - on wooden panel. (12x12 inches)

Laura's Dream

2008-02-11T18:40:00.021-05:00

This painting was inspired by a dream that my sister had. I made some changes/embellishments to the original details of the story, but the idea is the same.

48x60" Oil on Canvas

Speed Empowerment (from start to finish)

2007-11-29T15:20:00.001-05:00

View of the final painting in the gallery (Stricoff Fine Art) window display in New York!

Oil on Canvas
48x60 inches

I've finally returned to my studio after a great trip to New York and Boston. I'm so happy to be back in the swing of things and feeling inspired after seeing so much great art.

Allegory in Yellow Floaties

2007-11-28T16:27:00.001-05:00

Basking in strangeness is a part of life. This painting uses representation to solidify a completely abstract feeling.

It is not correct, but imagined. It has been seen as bizarre and I could be the only one in the world that thinks it is really very normal.

Oil on Canvas. 36x60 inches.

More Press: The Wisconsin Week

2007-11-16T13:24:00.000-05:00

by Kristin Czubkowski

Photo: Jeff Miller/ University of Wisconsin-Madison

Article excerpt:

"…Sometimes a $50 purchase can become an investment as students continue in their art careers. One example of this is the Union’s purchase of an early Bruce Nauman piece in the 1960s. Nauman, a science major at UW–Madison at the time, went on to become one of the most well-known modern artists of the last few decades. The Nauman painting, Schmoldt says, spends most of its time in storage due to wear and tear causing paint damage, but it was recently brought out for a student-curated show in the spring.

The Union also displays an early glass sculpture from Dale Chihuly, who attended graduate school at UW–Madison. While these are just a few examples, pieces like these illustrate the strength of UW–Madison’s art department, Gunther says, and the high quality of artwork produced by its students. “UW–Madison is known nationwide for its art department, particularly for its printmaking,” she says. “All of my peers at NYU are aware of and comment on UW–Madison’s excellent standing in art. The Student Art Sale customers are purchasing high-quality work at an affordable price, which is a win-win for all involved.”

A look at past and present exhibitors

Katelyn Alain, in her final year in the art graduate program, is no stranger to the business side of art. After graduating from the Hartford Art School in Connecticut, Alain worked to get her pieces into various venues — from juried exhibitions to gallery shows — before entering graduate school. “Maybe because I’m a little older or feel like I’ve been doing it a long time, I’ve just set myself up in a different way. It’s important to me to try to make money doing this,” she says. In addition to art shows, the Internet has been a prominent factor in Alain’s career. From her personal Web site to online galleries such as Saatchi Online, Alain sells her work from a number of online venues. Alain’s most recently sold work, a painting titled “The Girl in the Red Tunic,” was featured in an Oct. 10 Wall Street Journal story on online art galleries, which generated a wave of interest in her artwork.
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Katelyn Alain Paintings in Wall Street Journal

2007-10-10T18:59:00.001-04:00

A Work in Progress: Buying Art on the Web

By KELLY CROW
October 10, 2007; Page D1

As art lovers descend on London this week for the opening of a glitzy art fair called Frieze, art sales have never been hotter at galleries and auction houses. But the online marketplace for art is still as mottled as a Monet water scene, with vast amounts of art available at various Web sites but a scarcity of big-ticket buyers.

Does art actually sell online? It's long been hard to tell. Now, one big online gallery, Saatchi Online, is offering its first financial clues to the answer -- and a clearer picture of the much-hyped Internet art marketplace and its challenges.

Katelyn Alain

More than a dozen Internet sites, from eBay to Ugallery.com, offer tens of thousands of new artworks. But top collectors like Agnes Gund in New York and curators like Weston Naef of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles largely ignore what's offered on online art sites, preferring to buy directly from auction houses or dealers. Even Christie's International initially struggled last year to persuade collectors to click and bid using its new online venture. (Christie's says its online bidders bought $32.3 million of art over the past year.)

Saatchi Online made a splashy entrance into this market over a year ago, when it invited artists to upload and sell their creations on his site, with the site taking no commission fees. With Charles Saatchi, a high-profile British ad executive and art collector, at the helm, the site has been seen by some in the art world as a litmus test for Internet sales.

The painting 'Tied,' by Katelyn Alain, was sold over Saatchi Online.

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Feeling of Winter or Winter Tea Cup (progress of one painting)

2007-10-09T22:49:00.001-04:00

Tumult of memories - winding an ambient web - building tangled nests of deceit – haunting how they inform me – like sugar melting on the tongue

This painting has transformed into a scene informed by the onset of the Wisconsin winter.

There is something strange and new about this one that adds an element of intrigue to future paintings for me. It was extremely difficult to photograph- the colors are so variant. The actual painting looks way better than the picture of it here. I'm finally satisfied with it (top image).

Open Art Studios Weekend: at the Zoo

2007-10-08T19:18:00.001-04:00

Photo credits: Gary N-ski

What a great weekend of art making and socializing with art enthusiasts.

I am a member of an arts group called artsTRIBE and we set up shop at the Henry Vilas Zoo's visitor center for the Madison Open Art Studios Weekend. Good times. Beautiful Building.

This was also a great way to make some extra cash to help pay for grad school.

The Capital Times -Madison, Wis.

2007-09-17T12:45:00.001-04:00

BEST BETS
by Rob Thomas and Kevin Lynch

ART WILL CARRY YOU AWAY

"How We Get Carried Away," a Master of Arts exhibition by Katelyn Alain, is a series of life-sized oil paintings created over the past two years. In her strongest and most cohesive body of work to date, Alain explores the relationship among memory perception, reality and imagination through allegorical narratives. Alain's work will be exhibited in the Madison Municipal Building from Sept. 4 through Oct. 31.

link to blurb

Exhibition Walls

2007-09-15T14:54:00.000-04:00

Solo Exhibition: ARTspace Gallery September 5 - October 31

2007-09-01T13:34:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the Playground

2007-08-09T14:00:00.002-04:00

Remembering the Great Egret of Guatemala

2007-08-09T12:15:00.002-04:00

Detail shots

How We Get Carried Away

2007-07-30T17:02:00.001-04:00

48 x 60" Oil on Canvas

The Studio

2007-07-20T00:12:00.001-04:00

Artist Residency

2007-06-14T09:34:00.000-04:00

I am currently off the grid and working at a residency in Vermont. I will return in one month with new work.

A Masculine State of Affairs

2007-05-14T13:48:00.000-04:00

48x85 inches. Life-sized figure. Oil on canvas (diptych)
not quite finished..but almost.

Confident, absurd, royal. Gliding through time and space on a gilded chariot (or is that a child's pull toy?). How is such an antiquated and silly machine propelling him forward? Where could he be going? Good questions, but does any of that matter when he can enjoy such delicious treats during the ride?

Death of the Rabbit

2007-05-01T11:53:00.000-04:00

48x60 inches. Oil on Canvas.

Current Exhibition: Overture Center for the Arts

2007-04-17T14:23:00.000-04:00

artsTRIBE presents:
O Fortuna! Exploring Carmina Burana
March - June 2007
In collaboration with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, we explore the links between Carl Orff's famous musical score and the rich history of the original Burana Codex that inspired it.

Visit our website to discover the many ways that you can participate in our explorations.

Opening Reception: April 13, 6-9PM

also join us on
Gallery Night: May 4
Madison Symphony Orchestra performances: May 11,12,13