About This Item:

• Oil on Panel

• 11”L x .5”W x 14”H

• 2019

Katy Richards paintings of the human figure create an intimate space where viewers can closely look upon the body. Her recent figurative paintings are composed of a variety of brush strokes and shifting colors, impressionistic up close but in focus from a distance.

Katy Richards is known for her fleshy oil paintings that are concerned with the materiality of paint as well as the physicality of the human body. She is inspired by underwater and sea life, and paints from experiences as well as reference photography. Her work is in the Progressive Art Collection, and many other private and public collections. Richards teaches painting and drawing at Kent State University and received a BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.