about/ cv

Kathleen paints figurative works in oil and in paper collage.  Her style is direct, open, and intimate.  She portrays groups of people who we make easy assumptions about - cops, seniors, museum guards, housekeepers.

She began working with torn paper collages, exhibiting at LACMA’s Rental and Sales Gallery. These life-size portraits of influential women range from her mother to Anna Magnani. The era of the 1950’s as the nadir of expectations for women underlies these portraits.

She has had exhibitions at LACMA, LA Art Association, Gallery 825, Topanga Canyon Gallery and was prize winner at the FHP/Take Care competition, judged by Kent Twitchell.

Through Otis College of Art and Design, she was artist-in-residence at The Westchester Community Center. She painted on site, using skills gathered in Laddie John Dill’s Master Workshop where she painted from live models.  The paintings from those sessions were given a solo exhibit “Nudes Nudes Nudes” at House of Woo in the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District in 2016.

She received an MFA degree from the Film Theater and Television Program at UCLA and produced and directed several short films.   Painting has become her primary art and she lives and works at her studio in Los Angeles.

Education

Teaching Artist Certificate; Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles CA 2016

MFA; UCLA Film and Television 2009

BA Anthropology; UC Berkeley

 Printmaking, Etching, and Lithography; Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI

Exhibitions

Brand 53: Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, Juror Sigrid Burton,  Glendale, CA 2025

Artist Residency, Westminster Community Center, Rec and Parks,  Los Angeles 2016-2017

House of Woo solo show; Nudes Nudes Nudes Arts District, Los Angeles 2016

Topanga Canyon Gallery, Franklyn Liegel, Juror, Los Angeles, 2012

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, 2007

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sales and Rental Gallery, 1996-1998

Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Small Works, 1996

FHP/TakeCare Competition and Exhibition, Kent Twitchell, Juror.  Second Prize winner. Long Beach, CA 1996

NBC TV series Caroline in the City, artwork for the show, 1995

Illustrations: Gourmet Magazine and San Francisco Magazine, 1978-1979

Films

Director and Producer, Tints of Autism, documentary short. Aired on Current TV and Al Jazeera

Director and Producer, Raising Kate, documentary film, on IMDb