The Studio as Laboratory

Written By Kathleen Yorba

The studio is more than a place where I make paintings.

It is an incubator. A laboratory. At times, almost a womb.

Artist working in the studio

It is where the work and I meet before the work is ready to live on its own.

A painting may eventually leave the studio, but I hope it carries something of where it began — the energy, the searching, the quiet, the interruptions…. Each piece needs to become independent, but not anonymous.

It should have its own life.

Snapshot #520

And still carry the mark

of its home base.

Kathleen Yorba

Kathleen Yorba is an American abstract and figurative painter. Shown in solo, group, juried and invitational exhibitions, Kathleen has works held both in private and public collections i.e. Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, California; George Fox University, Oregon, University of La Verne, La Verne, California; University California Los Angeles (Triverton House), Los Angeles Self-Help Graphics... Yorba is represented by Hammerfriar Gallery, Healdsburg, California.

Kathleen Yorba holds a Master of Fine Arts from Azusa Pacific University, Bachelor of Arts from University of La Verne, and was twice a recipient of Wyoming's Jentel Artist Residency. Born in La Junta, Colorado, Yorba now resides on the California Central Coast.

Previous

A Change in the Air
Next

A Monastic Practice