Katherine Nagel
Artist Statement
Katherine Nagel is a painter and printmaker based in New York City. Her work explores themes of play and discovery, parents and children, time and inheritance. Nagel’s figurative series centers on children and parents. For children, play is not frivolous but purposeful. Focussed on their inner reality, children play to make sense of the world. Through their interactions with children, parents seek to pass on what they have inherited— often without fully understanding it themselves. Moments of interaction between parents and children evoke the passage of time. Nagel’s cityscapes likewise evoke both inner and outer landscapes. Ranging from joyous and playful to solitary and brooding, they depict an inner world as reflected in an outward arrangement of colors and shapes. By hovering between abstraction and realism, they seek to make a subjective experience visible, something that can be communicated and passed on.