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

2022 The Paul and Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize, Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula, OH
2022 DayGlo 9, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH
2021 Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH
2020 I am the River, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH
2019 Alumni Exhibition: There’s No Basement At the Alamo, Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2018 DayGlo Sho 2018, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH
2017 Bazaarbeque VIII, Forum Artspace, Cleveland, OH
2016 Bazaarbeque VII, Forum Artspace, Cleveland, OH
2016 Artists Abstract, Article, Cleveland, OH
2015 Bazaarbeque VI, Forum Artspace, Cleveland, OH
2013 Bazaarbeque VI, Forum Artspace, Cleveland, OH
2013 Idea Culture, The University of Akron’s Myers School of Art, Akron, OH 2013 Idea Culture, Forum Artspace, Cleveland, OH
2012 Vivid Parts, Survival Kit Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2012 Correlative Forms, Forum Artspace, Cleveland, OH
2011 Bazaarbeque II, Forum Artspace, Cleveland, OH
2010 Bazaarbeque, Forum Artspace, Cleveland, OH
2010 Building Peers, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland, OH 2009 Strides, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2009 For Lovers, D...