Katherine Wilson: Look At Me Look At You

JUNE 28TH THROUGH JULY 26TH, 2008

Opening Reception: Saturday 28th June, 7:00 – 10:30pm

Black Maria Gallery is pleased to announce Katherine Wilson’s upcoming show, Look at me look at you. In these works, Katherine explores a unique character and its interaction with the natural world through a series of drawings. 

Eyes belie one’s experience and hold a depth of emotion. These drawings combine an element of the surreal with a natural environment or organic object. Often melancholy, but sometimes mischievous, each picture speaks of a quiet story – a moment of brief interaction between creature and environment suspended in time. The creature morphs and changes how it interacts with its environment, but the eye element remains suggesting that inanimate objects are alive and empathize with their surroundings. 

Katherine’s influences include calligraphic line work, anime, Surrealism, chiaroscuro, as well as traditional Dutch painting technique. She has developed a unique style addressing both the abstraction and spatial orientation of forms that suggest creatures or natural phenomena. Trained as an oil painter, Katherine enjoys the spontaneity that drawing provides, as well as the intense detail that can be achieved with graphite. She lives and works in Los Angeles.