“Stylistically I have always been unapologetically maximalist, colorful, and loud. I engage formally and obsessively with paint and wood carving. I work from a combination of life and image, and really think of the canvas as a stage for all of life’s dramas. When it comes to my style, it has always been the natural way my hand interacts with material. I honor that. It’s funny, I have always been able to paint and draw hyper realistically, but I like to engage in a more initiative and ritualistic manner with my materials. I think my stereo blindness also plays a huge role my style, especially the way I deal with space and depth. I play a lot with the Gestalt principles of perception and neurological depth cues. I have a natural fluency in flatness. As my work has evolved, the literal figures may have left, but I still think of each of my pieces as a portrait.”
—Kate Pincus-Whitney
