About

Kit S. Carlton originally hails from Austin, TX but has called its sister city, Portland, OR. home over a decade. Her path to a studio practice appears divergent and sidewinding: she holds a dual BA in Anthropology and English from Texas State University and once upon a time studied non-human primates as a behavioral research scientist at Texas Biomedical Research Institute. In 2016 after a 600 some-odd mile walk across Spain to find her raison d'être, she returned home to earnestly pursue the call to Art. And in this brief span of time she has steadily exhibited works both locally and nationally. Most notably: a spot on-set of Hulu’s breakout comedy, ‘Shrill’, a mural installation in the Mural Capital of the World aka Philadelphia, and awarded a residency at Arteles in Finland in February of 2020.

As a New/Mixed Media artist, her process starts by employing traditional methods (drawing, painting, etc.) and once a satisfactory result emerges, the work is transferred into the digital realm for further examination. Often this process reciprocates whereby results yielding from digital processes are incorporated back into the original/analog work.

People frequently ask if her work is considered painting or printed photograph. The simplest answer: both/and. The reality: each work is its own authentic metaphysical inquiry into the connection between the physical and immaterial. Naturally, elements within her work center around myth, semiotics, poetics, space, perception, sub/consciousness, and the transpersonal.

Carlton views her work as a bridge between these mediums/realms each one influencing the varying fields of perception created by its own particular time, space and place. As such, she strongly encourages the viewer to closely examine her work in efforts to observe the symbiotic relationship therein because she believes that once a viewer internalizes an emotional response to the work in another specific time, space and place the work then becomes by sheer experience a further preservation and transfiguration of the work—perhaps this is because of her deep-seated belief that Art is the study of Spirit and it is Spirit that evolves us.

All images, musings, and content contained in this site are the intellectual property of Kit S. Carlton © unless otherwise specified. Artist retains all rights. If you would like to use any photos or content you must contact the artist @ kumakitsuneog@gmail.com for permission.  Thank you for respecting the artist's rights.