Caitlan An

I've been a ballerina since I was seven years old. I have trained mostly in the Russian Vaganova style. This type of ballet although it is very strenuous and technically challenging, it's meant to look fluid and effortless. These qualities translate into the way that I paint. My work emphasizes the tensions implicit in combining the human mind and the world it perceives. What is underneath the surface is how I see the world. I want to make visible what is invisible. I intend to narrate my feelings and thoughts through painting.

Everything in my artwork has personal meaning, whether it is something someone gave me or an object or place that moved or affected me. I respond to the world around me tiehr through the figure, object, place, or a combination of the three. It is through my own perception or the way I see the world, that determines how it is aesthetically depicted through color and forms. I want to convey the feelings that I felt when I was at a specific place, with someone, or pertaining to an object of mine. Though I write in a journal daily, painting is a much more vivid way of preserving my emotions. My memories are more solidified when I physically interpret them through paint. Though my paintings are wordless, each ...

B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

M.A.T. Visual Art K12 at North Park University. Degree in progress.

2019

Bookmarx, In and Out: Solo Exhibition, First Friday Art Walk, Springfield, MO

Creamery Arts Center, Myths and Muses, Springfield, MO

Sky Gallery, Still Life, Springfield, MO

2016

Essa Salon, Chandelier: Solo Exhibition, Oyster Bay, NY

2014

Dehangro Project, A Quiet Place: Street Mural, Seoul, South Korea

2012

Sullivan Galleries, SAIC Spring BFA Thesis Exhibition, Chicago, IL

2009

Wisteria Salon, Natural Beauty: Solo Exhibition, Greenville, SC