Katie M. Westmoreland, b. 1990 in Bryan, Texas, earned a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin and attended Columbia University’s Advanced Summer Painting Intensive in 2012. Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), Greer Museum (Rio Grande, Ohio), and Otto’s Abode (Wanakena, NY) have hosted solo exhibitions of her work. She has been in group exhibitions at LoBo Gallery (Long Island City, NY), Paradice Palase (Queens, NY), The Sotheby's Institute of Art (New York, NY), Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Hello Studio (San Antonio, TX); among others. She was a visiting artist at Rio Grande University and Portsmouth High School in Ohio. Public commissions include an installation at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse in (Brooklyn, NY); a digital painting for the Red Hook Interim Flood Protection Mural Project (Brooklyn, NY); and a mural commissioned by the NYC Department of Transportation on East 161st Street near Yankee Stadium. Westmoreland lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

I will create kinetic, planar textile interventions that engage with subtle, environmental phenomena where the urban and natural intertwine. I will utilize moving light and shadow patterns as active mediums, and compound the responsiveness by painting on the fabric panels with light sensitive solutions. The fabric will function as both a surface and a veil. Depending on viewer perspective and quality of atmospheric light, the colorful fabric shapes will oscillate in degrees of visibility - sometimes camouflaged in the environment, sometimes functioning as beacons, but always ultimately trail markers for our ability to experience the (even greatly troubled) world around us with curiosity and wonder. Visitors will be invited to collaborate with the breeze in the choreography of the suspended tapestries by moving the works around in space. The repositioning of the fabric shifts the light and shadow patterns caught by the planes to generate opportunities for us to examine our understanding of environment and time.