ARTIST STATEMENT
FUCKERY PAINTINGS
Kat’s work focuses on the intersection between one’s inner world and its expression to the other, and the boundaries that exist between. She is interested in the barriers placed between ourselves, and ourselves and the other.
She explores how our perception is a construct of our inner world, how mutable our understanding is of ourselves, and even more so, the other … and how bound we are within our own vast beautiful minds. She explores in her paintings mutations of memory, as well as point of view.
Kat was raised in a family of artists and art lovers. She began singing Barbra Streisand songs in her backyard as a child, when she found the life and landscape she could create and discover within herself – accessed through melody and her own voice – was rich and vast.
She pursued her love of singing throughout her early adulthood, including acquiring a BFA in acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, with which she promptly did nothing, having no real interest in the performance aspect of performance but rather in the internal journey of the artist. She liked the exploration, but not the product.
After experiencing an injury to her vocal cords, Kat stopped singing and pursued other, non-artistic endeavors, including becoming an ICU nurse, which she refers to as the rawest form of performance art available.
Working as an ICU nurse during the Covid-19 pandemic ended Kat's career in nursing and exploded her painting. She discovered that 15 years of unexpressed creative impulse, muted, was untenable and anathema to the internal landscape she had found as a child.
Kat began painting and hasn't stopped.