Katherine Borkowski-Byrne

Katherine Borkowski-Byrne was born and raised in New Jersey and currently resides and works outside of Boston, MA, USA. She started painting as a young married woman living in Nova Scotia, Canada, where she drew inspiration from the wild landscape.

While listening to opera, Katherine translates the many layered-music into many-layered paintings. She is influenced by the art of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism with its focus on being in the moment and the use of fortunate accidents and experimental techniques. She fell in love with oil paint for its wonderful viscosity and full range of effects, and also paints with acrylic, watercolor and mixed media.

Katherine studied with Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Friedel Dzubas in Boston, MA, and proclaims that there are still new and exciting paintings to come from the language of abstract expressionism.

BFA - 1984
Tufts University & the School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Exaggerated - Group Show - Fountain St. Gallery, Boston, MA 2009-2014 Various Group Shows - NAACO Gallery, North Adams, MA
2012 Two-Person Show, Throwing Paint & Composing Pots,- NAACO Gallery, North Adams, MA
2011 Solo Show, Fellowship Meetinghouse, Bennington, VT
2011 Small Works, Group Show, Becket Arts Center, Becket, MA
2010 Solo Show, Diversity Gallery, Tufts Health, Watertown, MA
2010 Solo Show, Becket Arts Center, Becket, MA
2010 Abstraction Now, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA 2008-09
2011 Martinis & Masterpieces, Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston,Boston,MA
2000 Animals in Art, University of Massachusetts Medical Center Gallery, Worcester, MA
1999 Water Works, The Center for the Arts, Natick, MA
1998 Met on the Net (Not a Virtual Show), The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
1996 Going to the Dogs II , Federal Reserve Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 Solo Show, Milton Art Museum, Milton, MA
1993 Animal Imagery '93, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA 1992-93 Group Shows, Gallery Per Tutti, Boston, MA
1991 Gifts of Art, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
1991 Prismatic, Federal Reserve Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 16 Artists, War...