East to East: Art and Craft with an Asian Influence

Katazyna Coleman's canvases are largely devoid of all this activity and indeed outside of the working week, these streets are empty of people, cars and trucks so that they take on a cinematic quality. The blank slab sides of industrial installations dramatically slice any available light, describing and transforming the utilitarian nature of her subjects profiles so they appear like film sets, after the final scene of the movie has been shot and everyone has gone home.

Katazyna works from studies made on site from multiple view points, while she seeks a convincing visual shorthand for the structure that she is attracted to. The observational nature of her work is a part of the process, not the objective. While observed from life, her careful editing out of transitory features and layered painting process allow her to take the subject matter beyond the purely visual and toward more internal moments of reflection. The resulting paintings and works on paper exude an emotional strength and quiet complexity.

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