Kate Brogdon – Tempestas bringing the storm

Description

Kate Brogdon was born in Vienna, Austria, and grew up across the United States, primarily in Idaho. Over the years, she has lived in multiple countries, each place leaving its mark on her imagery and ideas. After earning her bachelor’s degree at the University of Virginia, she pursued diverse professional paths, most notably serving 25 years as an active duty Marine, while continuing her artistic studies. Her work has been recognized with awards in exhibitions across Southern California, Virginia and virtual platforms. She currently lives and works in Virginia. 
Growing up a child of immigrants and living in diverse cultures has deeply influenced Kate’s creative process. Each place lived has contributed to how she sees and interprets the world, and interactions with people from different backgrounds heightening her interest in how we form unique perspectives through lived experience. Kate shares this through views of her own history and ideas. Kate collects experiences, images, and fragments of ephemera to build layered visual frames as ways of exploring how we construct our worldviews and how those views shape our relationships with each other and with the world itself. Through photography, collage, and painting, she seeks to capture not only the present moment but also the sense of memory evolving over time. Working in layers and across media allows Kate to capture greater depth of thought to reveal the nuances of perception developed in fragments, overlaps, and unexpected juxtapositions. These visual combinations create shades of meaning that mirror the complexities of our world. Sometimes these are clearer up close, sometimes only understood at a distance. In these layers, she aims to suggest the fluid and multifaceted ways we experience reality.