Katherine Boyce
Katherine observes ordinary cityscapes and landscapes, but when she paints them, somehow more than just the ordinary shines through—and that is the wonder of art.
Artist’s statement:
Katherine Boyce is an oil painter living and working in Minneapolis. Her body of work draws from her experience of her surrounding environment, whether city or wilderness. She uses paint to both capture and abstract the sense of space and atmosphere she perceives, such that her paintings are less a depiction of real scenes and more a memory of being somewhere. Her compositions are suspended between representational detail and abstraction, serving as a way to visualize her internal processing of the scenes and events she experiences in a wild, often maddening world.
This body of work includes paintings from several different series painted in 2018 and 2019, when Boyce began painting professionally. The variety of styles and themes represented are expressive of the myriad changes in her surroundings over the past five years. From the density of the city to the solitude of the Minnesota winter to the fragility of remote, endangered places, painting is Boyce’s way of paying attention to the spaces we create, inhabit, and impact as humans.
Boyce maintains a home studio practice and displays her work in Studio 364 of the Northrup King Building. In addition to painting, she is a freelance writer for the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District, as well as a volunteer from Princeton University with a degree in Politics and a certificate in Visual Arts.