Kat Lowish
Bio: Kat Lowish is a New York-based artist who works primarily with painting as well as photography and ceramics. Before attending Columbia University’s School of the Arts, she received her Bachelors degree in German and French Studies from University College London.
Instagram: @happykat_nyc
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: My work as a painter has been influenced in part by photography, which in turn was influenced by painting. I view painting as nothing short of magical, as an image appears out of nothing; and in photography, as well, when a frozen instant projects an impression that can depart, and sometimes radically so, from its genesis in real life. I am inspired, as a painter, by how the fragment of an image or an individual object represented on the canvas feeds our imagination in ways that are uncontrolled by, and personal to, each viewer. I like to view each individual work as a fragment of an imagined theatre play.
L to R: Make Believe (20" x 24", Oil on canvas, 2022); Great Expectations (25" x 34", Oil on canvas, 2022); Elevenses (24" x 24", Oil on canvas, 2022); The Intruders (25" x 34", Oil on canvas, 2023); Resting (25" x 25", Oil on canvas, 2022); Overspill (18" x 24", Oil on canvas, 2022); Pretend Pony (25" x 34", Oil on canvas, 2022); The Cardinal Socks (are drying in the laundry room) (24" x 24", Oil on canvas); Finger Food (25"' x 34", Oil on canvas); Head of the Table (25" x 31", Oil on canvas)
First Year Exhibition
Untitled Series (15.5”x 21.5”, Inkjet Print, 2021)
