KATHRINE LEMKE WASTE
Kathrine Lemke Waste explores the artifacts of modern culture with a pop art sensibility, grounded in her Northern California roots. Her paintings celebrate color, form and light as she finds beauty in common, ordinary objects.
It is the essential function of my painting to get the viewer to, as Wordsworth put it, “see into the life of things.” In a world that bombards us with thousands of visual messages each day, the enduring challenge for me as an artist is to get the viewer to use an eye made quiet, to hold a particular moment in time as transaction among artist, subject and audience. As Georgia O’Keeffe noted, “objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.” While the subject matter I paint is best described as contemporary realism – pattern, light, color, form and surface are the most important elements to me in the process of making a painting.
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