Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 13

Katherine Fraser
"One Real Thing" Woman Buried in Ball Pit

2023

About the Item

This piece titled "One Real Thing" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser and is made of oil on canvas. This piece measures approximately 36"h x 46"w and is shipped in the pictured wooden frame. This piece debuted during the artist's solo exhibition "All Fun and Games" displayed in 2023. Katherine Fraser’s paintings depict moments of quiet reflection and insight, of wonder, vulnerability, yearning, determination, humility, strength, and growth. She sees a duality in every moment, and beauty in the tension of opposing emotions existing in a single facial expression. As every person and every experience is multifaceted, every painting is meant to express a dimensional idea. She is fascinated by the mutability of memory, by the way emotions can shape perception, and the way we unconsciously create narratives to understand our experiences and explain our identities. Fraser paints out of her sincere desire to respect, express, and share the tender qualities that unite us. Compassionately and with a generous heart, she seeks to portray our continual need to reckon expectations with truth, and the struggles we endure to feel satisfaction with our choices. Her goal is not just to make aesthetically beautiful paintings, but to create works that touch and resonate with the complexity of real world experience. Fraser has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and of the University of Pennsylvania. As a student she received the Thomas Eakins Painting prize, the Cecelia Beaux Portrait prize, and the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Award, among others. Since graduating in 2002, she has received awards including the Lucy Glick Award and the Victor Klein Family Award. Her work has been published in Studio Visit Magazine, Philadelphia Weekly, Die Blumen die Frauen, The Fertile Source, New American Paintings, The Southern Review, the Best of American Oil Painting, and more. Her work may be found in many permanent and private collections nationally and abroad.
  • Creator:
    Katherine Fraser (American)
  • Creation Year:
    2023
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 46 in (116.84 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Philadelphia, PA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU188212338932

More From This Seller

View All
"The Tailor", Figure with Sewing Machine in Yellow, Paint, and Collage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"The Tailor" is an original artwork by Eustace Mamba and measures 24"h x 30"w x 2"d. The artists cuts, arranges, sews, and collages fabric and paints to create layers of texture and ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Textile, Mixed Media, Canvas, Thread, Oil, Acrylic

"Nine Lives VI" Striped Cat with Blue
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Nine Lives VI" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser and is made of oil on canvas. This piece measures approximately 23.5" x 27.5" a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Nine Lives VIII", Orange Cat Leaping in Front of Gold Tinsel
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Nine Lives VIII" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser and is made of oil on canvas. This piece measures approximately 23.5" x 27.5"...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Nine Lives VII" Black Kitten Playing with Green Background
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Nine Lives VII" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser and is made of oil on canvas. This piece measures approximately 23.5" x 27.5" ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Nine Lives III" Orange Cat Portrait
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Nine Lives III" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser and is made of oil on canvas. This piece measures approximately 23.5" x 27.5" ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Nine Lives IV" White and Brown Striped Cat in Movement in Blue
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Nine Lives IV" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser and is made of oil on canvas. This piece measures approximately 23.5" x 27.5" and is shipped in the pictu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

You May Also Like

The Conversation II
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed lower left Elizabeth Higgins (Canadian, b. 1960) Elizabeth Higgins describes herself as an abstract figurative and landscape painter. Everything around her serves as a potential subject, an inspiration to begin a painting. Fidelity to the landscape, the figure, or the still life is relative, as she isn’t interested in literal depictions; instead, it’s the abstract relationships of these shapes and colors, the abstract pictorial design that drives her work. Higgins’ paintings are rooted in the tradition stemming from Courbet, Derain, Bonnard, Matisse, Morandi, German Expressionism, and the Canadian Group of Seven (also known as the Algonquin School of landscape painters, 1920–1933). She is influenced by the work of her artist-teachers Paul Resika—himself a student of Hans Hofmann—and Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993), as well as the paintings of contemporary artist Peter Doig. Her artistic evolution stretches across this continuum. It is the “in-between”, the hovering between representation and abstraction, that interests her, not the labeling effect of details; instead, she aims directly at the spirit of the painting—of making something come to life. John Goodrich wrote in her catalog essay, “Elizabeth Higgins’ direct brushwork and simplified forms suggest an energy, but crucially, reveal a painter who knows the power of color…” Elizabeth Higgins was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1960. As a Helena...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Armenian Contemporary Art by Kamsar Ohanyan - Sunny Room
By Kamsar Ohanyan
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Couple, Oil on Canvas, Red, Orange by Contemporary Indian Artist “In Stock”
By Buwa Shete
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Buwa Shete - Couple - 30 x 60 inches (unframed size) Oil on Canvas, 2005 ( ROLLED AND DOOR DELIVERED ) Buwa Shete, born in 1960 in Maharashtra, India, is o...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Intermission
By Maggie Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
[b. 1980 – Denton, TX ::: lives & works – Savannah, GA] MAGGIE EVANS is an artist based in Savannah, Georgia. She currently uses painting, drawing and installation to examine huma...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Status
By Maggie Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
[b. 1980 – Denton, TX ::: lives & works – Savannah, GA] MAGGIE EVANS is an artist based in Savannah, Georgia. She currently uses painting, drawing and installation to examine huma...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Administrators
By Maggie Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
[b. 1980 – Denton, TX ::: lives & works – Savannah, GA] MAGGIE EVANS is an artist based in Savannah, Georgia. She currently uses painting, drawing and installation to examine huma...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Recently Viewed

View All