About

Katherine Boyce is an oil painter based in Minneapolis, where she began painting professionally in 2019. She received a BA in Politics and a Certificate of Visual Arts from Princeton University in 2011. Alongside her art practice, Boyce is a freelance writer. She has covered artists working to bring attention to climate change and environmentalism, as well as writing about the history of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. Boyce also volunteers with the North Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, advocating for urban land use, transportation, waste, and water policies that protect the environment.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My body of work draws from my attention to the spaces we build, inhabit, and impact as humans. For someone who dislikes cars as much as I do, my cityscapes are full of them; many of my urban compositions are inescapably oriented around roads, reflecting the dominance of car infrastructure in the American landscape. But whether I am focused on the built or the natural environment, I can find as much beauty in headlights on pavement as sunlight on water. My paintings blend representational forms with semi-abstraction to evoke a sense of impermanence and memory; they are my way of recording my experience of being alive and being human in our beautiful but bewildering world.