Work in Progress

Detail section of
60x96" oil on canvas.

New work coming soon

This is how I paint.

Inner World, Outer self

18x24"
Oil on Linen

Study for A Grand Farewell

Oil on Linen
20x30"

Featured In Art and Fiction Journal

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

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

Featured at Ten Words And One Shot

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

24x30"
Oil on Linen

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

"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

36x48"
oil on canvas

Volume Black Artist Series '10 Interview

Katelyn Alain from Volume Black on Vimeo.

Ambivalence

18x24", oil on linen

Masters of Merriment @ Volume Black, NYC

Opening Friday April 30

6-9PM

929 Broadway (Flatiron District)

Volume Black Website

Traversing 9th Street

Oil on Canvas
58x40"

9th Street Work In Progress

Oil Bar on Mylar Study 2

and detail.

Oil Study on Mylar

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

12x12 "

Oil on wood panel

Alone In Arctic Waters

48x60"
Oil on Canvas

The Last Painting Of 2009

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