UT Austin alumna Kathryn St. Clair (BFA in Studio Art, 1993) is exhibiting new work in a solo exhibition titled Meditations on Volatility & Serenity/ Landscapes of a New World, currently on display at the Icehouse Gallery in Petaluma, California. Created at various points in St. Clair’s life, the exhibition features a multitude of mixed media works, including works of oil on canvas, oil on wood and watercolor on paper. The exhibition will be on view from October 5 – November 8, 2019.
Meditations on Volatility & Serenity/ Landscapes of a New World presents a series of paintings of abstract landscapes that, according to The Press Democrat, “comment on the delicate interconnectedness of living things, the struggle for dominance in ecosystems, and the state of volatility in our environment.”
St. Clair writes, “I am drawn to how light shifts our perception of what surrounds us, creating a halo of soft diffusion or pockets of ambiguity…. it inspired me to create momentary, imagined, experienced and idealized situations in my paintings. The paint itself becomes a part of the landscape experience—the soil, the light, the sentiment—and it guides the forms that allude to the land.”