About

Kate Martinez is a mixed media artist, working and living in Charleston, SC. Inspired by lineage, nature, and psychology, Martinez draws from metaphysical ideas of inner landscape, memory and personhood, especially physical, spiritual, and social connection. Exploring chance but always internally chronicled personal and corporate history, Martinez begins each work with dyeing the surface, and making quick, chaotic, abstract marks. She then draws out inherent shapes, painting in many thin layers until figures emerge.

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Awards

2021 City of North Charleston Purchase Award.
2018 Best in Printmaking, North Charleston Arts Fest.

Residencies

2021 Stay Home Gallery Artist Residency.
2021 Artist Residency in Motherhood.
2020 Artist Residency in Motherhood.

Exhibitions

2023 Hutchmoot, Franklin, Tennessee.
2022 Park Circle Art Walk, North Charleston, South Carolina.
2021 Piccolo Spoleto Juried Exhibition at City Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina.
2021 North Charleston Arts Fest, North Charleston, South Carolina.
2021 Park Circle Art Walk, North Charleston, South Carolina.
2020 “Spark” Public Works Art Center, Summerville, South Carolina.
2020 “Everything is Different” Juried Exhibition, Stay Home Gallery, Tennessee.
2020 “Soften”, Stay Home Gallery, Online Juried exhibition.
2020 Park Circle Art Walk, North Charleston, South Carolina.
2018 North Charleston Arts Fest, North Charleston, South Carolina.
2017 Art Fields Juried Exhibition, Lake City, South Carolina.
2017 North Charleston Arts Fest, North Charleston, South Carolina.