Kathleen King is a Chicago based artist, exhibiting her work in NYC and Chicago. Her works are in several private and public collections in the U.S. and internationally.

She taught drawing and watercolor at Korea University in Seoul as a visiting adjunct professor in 2008 in the International Summer Campus Program. She is also on the board of the Skopelos Art Foundation in Greece and has held workshops as a visiting artist there.

The artist’s obsessive and hypnotic multi layers of mixed media, whether on canvas or on paper, suggest the passage of time and movement, allowing the evocative compositions to unfold before the viewer’s eye, leaving a visual poetic impression similar to a perfume scent permeating the olfactory senses.

DIVAS is a solo show of her recent work at Viridian Artists, INC. June 8-26, 2010. She will also be exhibiting in the SOMA Drawing Center in the SOMA Museum, Seoul, Korea in December 2010. Images of some current drawings are in the SOMA Drawing Center archives. Her work will be included in “Viridian Artists” at Onward Gallery Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan in October - November. 2010. The artist will also have some of her prints displayed in "Chicago Stories:Prints" at the Art Institute of Chicago, May through September 2010.

The publications that have featured her work include the first and second editions of Spot Light on Living Artists, Ivy Sundell, Crow Woods Publishing, Evanston, IL, Art magazine, and Wolgan Milsool, Seoul, Korea.

Kathleen King is represented by: Viridian Artists, INC. 530 West 25th Street, Room 40,7 NYC, NY and Steeple Gallery, LTD, 11107 Thiel Street St. John, IN.

Praise for Kathleen King

"What King shares with her predecessors is a lively visual wit that is evident in the cartoony bulbousness of her central forms,as well as the eye-boggling patterns against which she positions them. However, what belongs to her alone and sets her work apart from the horde is the sheer inventive plasticity of the shapes that she devises, as well as her impressive skills as a colorist,which combine to lend her paintings an almost contradictory lyricism that escapes all categories,becoming unique unto itself."
Ed McCormack, Gallery&Studio magazine, June 2010

“The show title (“Illumatoons”) a composite of illuminate (as in Blake’s illuminated poems) and cartoon (as in Crumb’s Zap Comix) aptly describes the combination of the seductively resplendent and funkily fanciful that King achieves in her new work…”
Ed McCormack, Gallery & Studio magazine, NYC

“Kathleen King distills from a deep imagination and an exhaustive artistic process. Using monotype combined with collage, acrylic transfers and computer generated backgrounds this Chicago based artist produces lush surfaces that tackle the eye and refuses its release."
Bradley Newman, Art Papers

“The notion of the experiment lends power to these works, because King is in effect undergoing a somewhat scientific enterprise. Each painting, each creative effort, is an attempt to see and understand; as viewers move from work to work, they gain appreciation for King’s artistic goals.”
Gregg Hertzlieb, Director/Curator, Brauer Museum of Art