Kate Waters

Canadian painter Kate Waters’ photorealistic paintings begin with the artist taking photos that express the speed at which our technologically-driven, fast-paced society operates. Applying paint directly onto to her photographic prints, Waters transforms this speed and activity by slowly and painstakingly reproducing the image in paint. Her oeuvre, above all, is concerned with perception: with how her subjects perceive themselves and their surroundings and how viewers, from their own voyeuristic standpoint, perceive the same. It is hardly surprising that the museum and the street are recurrent settings for Waters, since they provide permanently shifting stages on which the comédie humaine is played out in all its infinite variety.

Waters has held solo exhibitions at Aeroplastics Contemporary in Brussels, Galerie Voss in Düsseldorf, and Institut Français de Cologne in Köln. Group exhibitions include Munichmodern in Munich, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Museum of Art in Wuhan, China, and Gallery Thomas Cohn in Sao Paulo.