“In a complex world that bombards us with thousands of visual messages each day, the enduring challenge for me, as a painter, is to get the viewer to use an ‘eye made quiet,’ to hold a particular moment in time.”
Painter Kathrine Lemke Waste is a California-based artist with a national presence. She has been a charter member of the Bonner David family of artists since the gallery opened in Scottsdale in 2002. Her still life works explore the artifacts of modern culture along with the agricultural abundance of her home in California's Central Valley.
"Waste's visually poetic images have often been described as 'luminous.' Her works are distinctive in the way they capture light and reflections," writes Bonnie Gangelhoff of her work in Southwest Art Magazine. "Simple, ordinary objects are transformed through her imaginative eye."
Kathrine's paintings and writings about the agricultural riches of the region were a regular feature for the Sacramento Bee in her weekly visual column, "One Perfect Thing." She's been highlighted in several issues of Southwest Art Magazine, American Art Collector Magazine, and Western Art and Architecture. Her paintings have been included in a number of museum shows in Arizona, California, Vermont, Colorado and Georgia. Kathrine teaches workshops for the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
Kathrine was elected to Master Signature Membership of the nonprofit organization, American Women Artists (AWA), and served as President of their Board of Directors. She was instrumental in launching AWA’s “25 in 25,” a national campaign to mount 25 museum shows in 25 years for female artists, with the express goal of showcasing work by women while adding their work to permanent collections. Work by women comprises, on average, only 5% of the permanent holdings of art museums in America. Kathrine speaks on this topic at venues around the country, recently speaking at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, about the initiative.
Statement
"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."
– William Wordsworth
"It is the artist’s job to get the viewer to, as the poet put it, 'see into the life of things.' In a complex world that bombards us with thousands of visual messages each day, the enduring challenge for me, as a painter, is to get the viewer to use an 'eye made quiet,' to hold a particular moment in time."