Artist’s Statement
I’ve spent the last few years exploring how to be - in a world that is upended - through art. I’m interested in imagined landscapes and unstructured moments in time, places of safety and repose, expressed through color blocks and fields. I paint with acrylics, but my preferred medium these days is colored pencil.
Biography
Kate Boyd is an emerging artist rededicated after years away to her practice. She excelled in art classes as a child and in community colleges before attending the Kansas City Art Institute for two years. She has always made art, taking continuing education classes here and there, dabbling in this or that, and for years focused mostly on processing, dyeing and spinning wool and other fibers into unique and colorful yarn. She returned to a serious practice in two dimensional work in early 2019, when she joined a group of resident artists at Concrete Ocean Studios and Gallery in St. Louis. The pandemic had her creating from a space on her family’s sofa, with materials that could be put away tidily at the end of the day. In this limited space and with limited materials, she found a strong and different voice that remains true even after she expanded to her own home studio and her range of media.
Curriculum Vitae
1987-89 - Attended Kansas City Art Institute, with a focus on painting and printmaking
1994 - Muralist, Local 506, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2012 - Group show, pop-up gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2019-2022 - Resident Artist, Concrete Ocean Studios and Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri. Several group shows
2019 - Group Show, Mangia Restaurant, St. Louis, Missouri. Displayed in the space until it closed in 2020, due to the pandemic.
2021 - Group Show, Inner Power Virtual Exhibition, Art Queen Inaugural Members - https://artqueens.co/inner-power-exhibition
Private Collection - Santa Cruz, CA
Private Collection - Eden Prairie, MN
Private Collection - St. Louis, MO