About
Kayleigh Christine is a multi media artist originally based out of Indiana where she earned her BFA from Indiana State University; studying painting, photography, and printmaking. She started painting with spray paint while in college to relieve stress and soon became enamored with it. Kayleigh often paints on found objects such as mirrors, windows and pieces of plexiglass. Her body of work is an ever changing and developing study that gravitates toward capturing emotion and imagination in organic and abstract images. Outside of painting, Kayleigh loves to collect rocks as well as old cameras and to cuddle with her two rambunctious cats.
Artist Statement
My paintings aim to both evoke and represent the limitless bounds of human imagination and emotion within very organic/abstract structures. I work to incorporate the influences of my environment by experimenting with the effects of weather, nature, emotion, energy and melody. I use spray paint because of its fluidity, manipulative qualities and unpredictability. It can be very unforgiving which I find to be both freeing and challenging. I am a big believer in reducing waste and prefer to paint on recycled materials.
My favorite part of each painting is the exploration of the viewer; hearing what others see, feel and perceive. Human imagination is often able to see images within abstract formations and the exploration of the varying experiences are fascinating to me.
My pastel pieces explore emotion, color, warmth and life by capturing the radiance of skin and the closeness of touch in intimate settings. The emotion captured in the subject matter and images are an attempt to break through ever growing socially constructed barriers.
My prints often explore more fantastical images and themes of imagination and wonder while also adding in elements of personal, social, and political struggles or conversations.
Exhibition List
2020 Abstractions: Cultural Center of Cape Cod South Yarmouth, MA - "A Cascade of Dreams" acrylic on plexi
2020 Diaspora: Gallery Popup at Bauformat Seattle, WA
2020 Women's Works 2020: Old Court House Arts Center Chicago, IL - "You Are Anything but Powerless" acrylic on plexi
2020 20/20 Vision: CoCA Members Show - "Worship" pastel on canvas
2019 Motherland: CoCA Members Show - "Rising Power" acrylic on glass
2018 Creativity Persists: CoCA Members Show - "A Cascade of Dreams" acrylic on plexi *Piece also featured on cover of the show catalog
2017 Make America Create Again: 2017 CoCA Members Show
2017 Love: South Seattle College Art Gallery 2017
2017 SSCC Art Gallery Exhibition
2016 35 Live: 2016 CoCA Members Show
6/2016 - 9/2016 WestHaven: Multiple pieces hung throughout corporate leasing office Seattle, WA
2014 SSCC Juried Exhibition: Seattle, WA
2012 ISU BFA Exhibition: Terre Haute, IN
ISU President's Award and Artwork Purchase: Terre Haute, IN
2018-current Print Representation by Third & Wall Art Group