Kate Brogdon was born in Vienna, Austria and grew up across the United
States, mainly in Idaho. She has since moved multiple times worldwide, drawing
images and ideas from each location. After completing her bachelor degree at
the University of Virginia, she gained a variety of work experiences, most notably
25 years as an active duty Marine, and continued her own art studies. This led to
awards in shows in Southern California, Virginia and virtually. Currently she
works in Virginia.
Growing up and living in a variety of places has influenced her creative
approach, drawing images and ideas from each location. Interacting with
diverse people in various countries has shaped her interest for understating how
people think and how each develops their own unique viewpoint from everything
they do and where they go, making them who they are, through the frame of her
own experience.
By collecting experiences, images and ephemera, Kate combines them into a
variety of visual frames of how we develop our worldviews, and how that shapes
our treatment of each other and our world. Through photography, collage and
painting, she explores ways of thinking the world around and between us.
A variety of layers and a mix of media helps to capture the whole of a memory at
the time with also a sense of it changing. Combining images in various forms
helps the viewer approach a way of multiple seeing, with the idea of capturing
fragments or nuances in perception. Visual combinations create shades of
meaning to capture the complexities of the world. Often this results in fortuitous
juxtapositions and interesting unplanned mixtures, along with changes and bits
left over as part of the evolution of thought in the span of the work. In these
layers of visuals, are layers of meaning to describe the complexities of the world,
sometimes seen differently from close and from a distance.