Kat Flyn

Black Jack

2016

This work references “The Wall” that Trump made a central part of his campaign for president and which, at the date of this piece's completion, still looms large in his demands for i...

KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...

assemblage sculpture: Hand carved wood woman tied to hand carved staff of woman with snake used as handle of old wood toolbox, old rolls of string, twine & rope, hand made wood & gesso articulated man...

In this series, titled Ghost Portraits, an individual, long deceased, is represented through a collection of “saved” items – old photographs, a lock of hai...

Erik Lindman Untitled, 2012 On verso Acrylic, gesso, satin, screws and plexiglas on canvas 104.0 x 73.3 cm Erik Lindman is a conceptual artist concerned with the culling and reinter...

Beverly Pepper Untitled, 1982-1983 steel and iron 33h x 27.50w x 10d in

Philip Shore uses his art to illustrate man's relationship to the environment and how the connection between nature and culture is becoming more fractured. Spiraling Dreams is made o...

"Cameron’s “Collage Paintings,” 2021–22, which he has been assembling in parts ever since relocating to Berlin from the United States in 2015. The source materials are photographs that Cameron has been taking as he perambulates through the city, their compositional logic derived from African American quilting...