8 Artworks
My practice is based in and always informed by perceptual drawings and painting made from direct observation via daily sketchbook practice, as well as still life and plein air painting. I am a believer in the benefit of deep observational practices for maintaining acuity and cultivating a sense of attention, my own subjectivity, and sensuous, embodied knowing.
About the Artist
Kat Spears (b. 1992) is a multimedia artist based in Berea, Kentucky, whose work explores porous boundaries and dissolving edges between subjects within a painting. Drawing from art history, literature, philosophy, and autobiography, they use personal experience to consider essential truths and the complexities of intimacy and perception. Their paintings emerge through a process of repeatedly building and destroying images, layering nascent forms and fully realized compositions into dense, shifting fields.
News and Notables
Solo exhibition, Surface Lore, Doris Ullman Galleries, 2026
Solo exhibition, Across the Burning Desert, 2026
Two-person exhibition, Daylighting, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, 2026