Kat Flyn Art

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...

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The question of gender assignment has recently received media attention after North Carolina repealed an anti-discrimination law aimed at allowing access to public bathrooms based...

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...

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 ...

assemblage sculpture: antique water-buffalo trophy horns with attached wood American flag crest from the Filipino/American War period (1899-1902). Large vintage rifle 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...

Medium: Unusual antique racist carnival baseball toss game-head of racist stereotype Mexican man (hat knocks off when hit with ball), Wall constructed of wood with acrylic paintings & drawings of Mexican asylum seekers and Gandhi's shadow, vintage metal toy...

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...

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

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 ...

“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...

Foot binding was a practice that crippled Chinese women for a thousand years and vestiges of it linger in the spiked heel and high heeled fashion popular in the present day. The idea...