About The Artist

Kathryn Gauthier began her studies at the age of nine. By sixteen she was competing in local and national shows, receiving awards for her carefully rendered still lives. She went on to both visual and performing arts, completeing her BA in fine art. It wasn’t until she moved to the city of Chicago, however, that her unique artistic voice began to emerge. She has been simultaneously pursuing careers in the visual and performing arts since that time. Her work can be found in the collections of the Beverly Art Center, Beverly, IL, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago IL, the VanderPoel Museum, Beverly IL, Southside Community Art Center, Chicago IL, Millville Public Library, Millville MA. She has participated in prestigious group exhibitions throughout the Massachusetts and Chicago areas. In a series of semi-abstract mixed media paintings Gauthier draws inspiration from avant-garde jazz, working from sketches made during live performance. The resulting imagery is as vibrant, fluid, rhythmic and colorful as the source. She is concurrently working on a series inspired by the natural abstractions in the urban landscape as seen in the fluid reflections contrasted by the static grid of windows. For Kathryn it presents a visual metaphor for the nature of modern society. The necessity to compartmentalize our lives in order to keep pace creates a paradigm of conflicting forces. …Structure versus chaos …Essence versus form. Gauthier sometimes combines performance and visual art, expressing her multidisciplinary leanings. She finds grounding in nature and home as evidenced by her body of fine watercolor studies and graphite drawings.