Mixed Media Sculptures

"Society is placing a major roadblock in front of the lives of women who now that Roe has been overturned, are pressured to carry unplanned pregnancies to term." KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990’s. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles. Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art, for example she turns a soft drink box...

It is now 2020 and Covid-19 is loose in the world. Medical personnel are our first line of defense against this out-of-control pandemic. We seem able to provide weapons and protective gear for the police as they battle protestors, who are marching against racial injustice, but not able to provide PPE clothing and other medical equipment...

assemblage sculpture: Hand carved wood woman tied to hand carved staff of woman with snake used as handle of old wood toolbox, old rolls of string, twine & rope, hand made wood & gesso articulated man...

In this series, titled Ghost Portraits, an individual, long deceased, is represented through a collection of “saved” items – old photographs, a lock of hai...

Mass Incarceration has become a civil rights issue in our country. People of color are dramatically overrepresented in our prison system, mainly due to nonviolent crimes stemming fro...

In this series, titled Ghost Portraits, an individual, long deceased, is represented through a collection of “saved” items – old photographs, a lock of hai...

The life simulated here is of a young mixed race woman facing life in a Jim Crow era - an era where one drop of African American blood consigned a person to a second- class existence...

assemblage sculpture: vintage wood "creeper", framed with deconstructed 1970s frame, vintage flag bell bottoms, vintage Peter Max sneakers, photo transfer of manipulated photo on canvas, old top hat with Zig Zag man and anti-war button, Conscientious Objector book, Volkswagen Repair for Idiots book, old photos, political pins, 1960s pins, metal flower pins...

Systemic racism is so much easier to observe if we step back in time. In this piece, we can easily assume the central figure – the oh so very white guy – believes the scene depicted is the natural order of things. But as we move closer to today, we can see there is a slow train coming around the bend, as more and more of us recognize that the depicted scene is not the natural order of things at all, but is rather the result of cultural decisions we now know as systemic racism. All Aboard.

“Love,” to quote the Beatles, “was all you need.” Looking back, the Hippie subculture, included a high dosage of naiveté. --- Kat Flyn is a self-taught assemblage artist working pr...

I am paying homage to all those Black single parent moms who work menial jobs, often more than one, so their children can have a better life…Saints. --- Kat Flyn is a self-taught a...

This piece, along with its accompanying graphic book, is about the limitations society puts on girls. Just when a girl thinks she has the hang of it, she is introduced to high heels ...

This work pays homage to the sacrifices that were made – especially by African-American women working menial labor jobs – so that the next generation could have a chance for a better...