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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Monday, August 09, 2010
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/
http://tenwordsandoneshot.com/
Monday, July 12, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
TWO fantastic new group shows in Santa Fe and New York!
Opening: Thursday, July 1, 2010 from 6-8 PM
Skotia Gallery
150 West Marcy Street Ste 103
Santa Fe, NM
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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
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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
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
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
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
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
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
Friday, October 30, 2009
On Figure Painting
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:
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.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The Age of Illuminated Phenomena Installation Shots
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
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Featured in American Art Collector Magazine
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!
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Solo Exhibition OCT 2 - 16, 2009
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).
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.)
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