about

Kate Greenwell is a painter, printmaker, and collage artist from Chattanooga, Tennessee whose work focuses on removing language from its found landscape. Greenwell highlights the dialogue between symbols, combining text with image to point out pre-existing messages.
Greenwell received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from The University of Tennessee Chattanooga and is an MFA candidate at the University of Albany in New York. She has assisted in workshops at Penland School of Arts and Crafts, held the position of resident fellow at Stove Works Artist Residency, and was awarded a creative residency at The Hambidge Center for the Arts. Kate has curated shows in the Stove Works salon and founded “above the water fountain,” a gallery that shows emerging artists in the Southeast. She currently works with Counterproof Press and as a journalist for the online art forum, Mineral House Media. Greenwell has shown work at institutions across the South and the Northeast including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Tennessee, the New Hampshire Association of the Arts, the Memor Museum in New York, and the William Benton Museum of Art in Connecticut.