Artist Statement

My paintings, drawings and prints are centered on landforms, and relational geographies between these forms, including rocks, mountains, and water, how they collide and interact with earth and sky. I am interested in mining the landscape as a source for process-based abstraction, utilizing multiples and repetitious mark-making to manifest physically into patterns, gestures, and shapes. My personal connection to environment often leads me to create forms or spaces that blend the literal monuments of physical nature with dreams, shifts in scale, and psychological reactions. Referencing mountainous and glacial terrain, ice and rock motifs, geological mappings, nature or imaginary realms, these scenes emphasize the elemental in the physical world, spoken through memory and visual space.

Artist Bio

Kathline Carr’s visual work, primarily painting and printmaking, has been supported by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (finalist award, painting 2022), Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, and Massachusetts-based Assets for Artists. In 2024, she was awarded a Holly Jordan Fellowship to attend In Cahoots Residency Program in Petaluma, CA. Carr has exhibited in New York City, Canada, and widely in New England, including Boston where she was a core member at Fountain Street Gallery, then an associate, for several years. Carr received her MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and BFA in Creative Writing with concentrations in Visual Art and Feminist Philosophy from Goddard College, VT. She is the print shop tech and studio instructor at the Studios at MASS MoCA Residency Program.