Kathryn Bilharz Gabriel

I'm originally from Central New York, and currently reside there on a farm and studio. In 2010 I concluded eight years of academic and professional work in Albany, New York, with a BFA in Painting from The College of Saint Rose, a dual degree in Art Education, and an MFA in Fine Arts from The University at Albany.
I spent several years instructing undergraduate drawing courses at The University at Albany before returning to Syracuse accepting a Fine Arts faculty position at Fayetteville-Manlius High School. I take pleasure in teaching others how to see while maintaining my studio and exhibition routine as a professional artist. I take part practicing and showing with a local figure drawing group, as figurative drawing is a constant in my process and often influences my abstracted work; noticing a shift from more mechanical imagery to more organic forms since continuing my figurative practice here in Syracuse.
Submerging painting into drawing, I transform a matrix of media layers into a skin that reveals specific imagery or indefinable figures. The result becomes a strange world: part nostalgic post-Pop graphics and color, and part romantic impulsive drawing; mixing mechanical, visual, and scientific interests from my life. Ch...

I received a BFA in studio art from The Center for Art and Design at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY in 2006. In 2010 I received an MFA in Fine Arts from the University at Albany in Albany, NY.

2016
Environmental Expressions, Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
Sum Art, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2016 OFD Portrait Shows, Onondaga Public Library and Fayetteville Library, Syracuse, NY

2015
New Work: Kathryn Bilharz Gabriel, Railroad Fine Art Gallery, Middleburgh, NY
Artist with 60/60 Fundraiser at the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

2014
Open Figure Drawing 25th Anniversary Show, Limestone Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Snow Show 2.0, Syracuse Public Arts Task Force, Syracuse, NY

2013
DECONSTRUCT: KATHRYN BILHARZ GABRIEL, Pastabilities, Syracuse, NY
Abstractions: New Modernism, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY

2012
BioLogical, Cary House Gallery at Salem Art Works, Salem, NY

2011
Albany Center Gallery Gala, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY

2010
Central City Artist Project, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY
M.F.A Thesis Exhibition, University at Albany Museum, Albany, NY

2009
Best of SUNY, Albany International Airport
Fall 2009 State University of New York Art Exhibition, Albany, NY
NanoArt 2009 Exhibit, Albany, NY

2008
Group Exhibit of UAlbany Graduate Students, First Friday, Albany, NY

2006
Untitled I: Young Artists, New Perspectives, Space 360, Hudson, NY
A Vis...