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Artist’s Bio- Katie Rickman
Painter and educator Katie Rickman is a native Marylander and a graduate of Maryland Institute, College of Art (M.I.C.A.) with both her BFA in painting and her MFA in teaching. Guiding others to develop the skills to “see through the eyes of an artist” in order to observe and record the world around them is a gift she was given by a favorite art teacher and mentor as a teenager. That experience sparked a life-long passion for painting and teaching.
Rickman is drawn to contrasting elements- darkness and glowing light, smooth and textured surfaces, old and new, organic and geometric, and more subtly masculine and feminine. While primarily working with paint on canvas, she also explores the addition of fabric, paper, small found objects, and other elements, playing with surface texture, then back to painting to reinforce a sense of form and space. She also likes to honor her own history by repurposing and collaging sections of old paintings into new works.
In June 2022, Rickman chose to reach out to a larger audience with her work as she left her teaching career to use her voice through her art to raise awareness and celebrate the unseen as a full-time artist.
