Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Katrina Kuras
Interrupting Baby III
Painting
2024
Oil paint on canvas
4.5 ft x 6 ft
The three paintings in Interruption needed to be large-scale to demonstrate the monumental impact a baby has on one's life. We rarely see 6ft paintings of babies. Historically, in paintings, babies are small and peaceful, however this is not their full reality. Aside from scale, I explored the visual impact of an autonomous baby interrupting the picture plane and crawling into the viewer's space. The concept of Interrupting Baby was developed before pregnancy while the paintings progressed during pregnancy.
“The lightness and joy in this painting reflects my overall excitement of becoming a mother. ”
Work by
Katrina Kuras aka. Katrina Starke Kuras
Drawing and Painting
“I am painting maternal time and fertility in reverse to identify and confront my fears of a more complicated future filled with sites of interruption. By choosing to be a mother, the artist no longer...” [More]
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