Katherine Borkowski-Byrne Art

Katherine Borkowski-Byrne has always considered drawing and painting as her first language. She describes painting as “a purely visual language that speaks to the eyes as music speaks to the ears.” She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and received a BFA in 1986. She was honored to receive an award as juried by artist Frank Stella during her student years at SMFA for independent work. Her work was included at the renown Harcus Gallery on Newbury Street in 1985, as “Museum School Future Alumni.” During the years of 1993 - 2018 she was, with very few exceptions, continuously awarded membership in the School’s Medici Society for works sold at the Annual Sale.

Katherine had solo shows of her work at the University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, in 1986 and at the Milton Art Museum in 1994. She also received a first place award by the Cambridge Art Association for Animal Imagery in 1993.

Katherine has since been in selected exhibitions throughout New England and was a member of the NAACO Gallery in North Adams, Massachusetts during the years 2009-2014 with a wall always dedicated to her recent work. Reviews of her work can be found in Art New England, Berkshire Living Magazine, The Advocate Weekly, North Adams Transcript and The Berkshire Eagle. A multi-page interview with Katherine is in the Artful Mind Magazine, October 2020. Her work can be found within many private and corporate collections, including the Federal Reserve Gallery, Boston, and the Sonesta Hotels.

Katherine is now an Associate Member of the Fountain Street Gallery, SoWa Boston. Her current work continues to be painterly abstraction where she enjoys painting to opera and using experimental techniques and tools, including attaching long-haired brushes to a mop handle and painting with socks.