My MFA Show Gallery Installation

Early Opening Pics

Discovering Delirium : A Master of Fine Arts Exhibition

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

48x48"
Oil on Canvas

Untitled IV

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

The Road Less Traveled

48x60"
Oil on Canvas

Remembering Exactly How it Was

48"x60" oil on canvas

Untitled II

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

12" x 12" x 1.5"

Taking The Long Way

48x60"

Untitled III

Oil on Wood Panel 12 x 12 x 1.5"

The Expedition

48"x60" oil on canvas

Small Self-Portrait

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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.