Kate Hooray Osmond

"Fly" - Contemporary Geometric Abstract Painting - colorful - Hilma af Klint

2022

"Saturday Streets" is an abstract landscape painting electric hues of orange, pink, blue and yellow. Kate Hooray Osmond is inspired by the work of Hilma af Klint and Damien Hirst. ...

"Fly" is a geometric abstract painting featuring hues of pink, orange, yellow and blue. Kate Hooray Osmond is inspired by the work of Hilma af Klint and Dami...

"Natura Pura" is an abstract painting featuring the full rainbow of colors. Kate Hooray Osmond is inspired by the work of Hilma af Klint and Damien Hirst. “...

"Bulles" is a geometric abstract painting featuring hues of blue, pink, yellow, and orange. Kate Hooray Osmond is inspired by the work of Hilma af Klint and Damien Hirst. “My series of paintings deal with sensation and ultra-color,” Kate explains. “I am considering the concepts of over-consciousness, Horror Vacui and the overlap between joy and terror. In visual art, “horror vacui” (from Latin “fear of empty space”), also kenophobia (from Greek “fear of the empty”), is the filling of the entire surface of a space or an artwork with detail. For this series titled “Gold,” each piece is influenced by a topic of consideration: technology, super-nature, genetics, pharmaceuticals, perception. As Kate studies and meditates on these subjects, her path of investigation grows more and more intense until she teeters between becoming overwhelmed by fear for our future and a euphoria filled with hope and intention. “I feel so much life that I am paralyzed by it, and I am confounded by how sensation and numbness can blend together,” says Kate. “All that glitters is Gold.” Born in 1983, Kate Hooray Osmond earned her MFA in Studio Art from Maryland...

"Free Sleep" is a geometric abstract painting featuring hues of green, orange, pink and blue. Kate Hooray Osmond is inspired by the work of Hilma af Klint an...

"Des Graines" is a geometric abstract painting featuring hues of blue, pink, yellow, and orange. Kate Hooray Osmond is inspired by the work of Hilma af Klint...

Burning Ember is painted on a wood panel, in acrylic. The size is 40" x 40". The painting hangs on a French cleat. Troy Smith is a Canadian artist, designer, sculptor and painter w...

Endless Night was painted by Troy Smith in acrylic on a Birch panel. The long arching palette strokes reach from one edge of the painting to the other. Blending only two colours, bla...

AUSPICE 2020 Paris, France An auspice is a ‘prophetic sign’ which the artist was inspired by. This textured, abstract piece features a lying skull, looking up to the sky...

THE OCCUPANT 2020 Paris, France A smaller work done in parallel to a complimentary piece ‘WOMBS, TOMBS, TOOLS,’ which portrays hand-painted serif typeset words ‘THE OCCUPANT.’ A ribbon of black along the base of the work hosts a line which reads: “The offices in the desert vending out futures -- if you had gotten a good one you too would want them all to know -- where our bodies have been.” The work is a commentary on the spaces we inhabit, and how they are all temporary. Paint is acrylic with the exception of the red elements, which are formed with oil paint. The painting is executed on two connected, reclaimed wood panels...

Union" is part of a series I call "Cut Line". The series explores relationships using morphic shapes. The lines you see are actually voids caused by sawing the MDF apart with a jig ...

Mixed media (oil, pastel and pencil) on a wooden panel. An intense, colorful, but at the same time essential, balanced and elegant, modern composition, in this gestural mixed media abstraction of a human figure, by Italian contemporary artist Federica Aiello Pini...