Highrise Rhythm
Acrylic on panel, 36 x 17 in, $2,100.00
Katie Metz’ works reveal a way of seeing beneath the immense and frenetic surface of city life to the unity and human connection we have within it. Metz finds a steady and unbroken peace in an otherwise teeming, bustling urban scene. Her compositions are created from personal reference and imagination, painting the way a city feels rather than any specific locations. A never-ending fascination for the artist, she is captivated by the way a city constantly changes and grows, a vertical playground that is both hurried and hushed. Her cities come alive with character, as she applies many thin layers of paint and promptly scrapes and scratches away at the surface. Her vibrant works use subtraction to imply some structure and urban gridding, but also the shifting light reflecting on high-rise windows, car headlights, and slick wet roadways.