Kate Kisicki

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, I specialize in painterly abstract landscapes. I use a variety of paint mediums including oil, acrylic, spray paint, tempera and watercolor. I also utilize drawing and mark-making techniques in my work which further emphasize my love of materials, color and spatial play.

My work is an example of the kinds of things I wish to see in the world embodied through expressive and sometimes overworked materials. With paint it’s possible for hybrid moments of chaos and control to be suspended indefinitely. Marks and brushstrokes can accumulate and converge within dynamic compositions. Artistic and stylistic references can emerge and dissolve within the same picture. Multiple layers of spatial distortions and techniques that are both familiar and strange coexist within a painted mindscape. I invite the viewer to discover imagery beneath layered materials and processes as they move throughout the imaginary space. Successful paintings may be the balanced result of elusive imagery that I intermittently control. And other times my purpose is to reveal illustrations of what I want the viewer to uncover and ultimately understand.

BFA Cleveland Institute of Art, Major Painting
MFA Virginia Commonwealth University, Major Painting

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 CBRE Gallery, Cleveland, OH

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize, Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula, OH. (Jurors: Francesco Lo Castro, Artist, South Florida, Gavin Perry, Artist, Pennsylvania, Pip Brant, Associate Professor at Florida International University.)
2025 DayGlo: Double Feature, Picture Glo, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH
2024 Doowutchyalike, Graffiti HeArt, Cleveland, OH (Juror: Bob Peck, artist based in Cleveland, OH.)
2024 2024 Women’s Show, Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula, OH
2024 DayGlo Sho 10, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH (Juror: Douglas Max Utter, painter and art critic based in Cleveland, OH.)
2023 New Master’s 3: Women Artists of Northeast Ohio, Ursuline College Florence O’Donnell Wasmer Gallery, Pepper Pike, OH. (Juror: Hilary D. Gent, Director at HEDGE Gallery, 78th Street Studios, Cleveland, OH.)
2023 Bazaarbeque 10, Kink Contemporary, Cleveland, OH
2022 The Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize, Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula, OH. (Jurors: Kim Beck, Associate Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Jose Carlos Diaz, Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art, Seattle, WA. Naomi Fisher, Artist, Miami, FL and NY.)
2022 DayGlo 9, Waterloo Ar...