Lives and Works in New York City USA
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My work draws from themes that are as contemporary as they are historic, as personal as they are universal. The drawings and paintings have an intensity that leave room for a poignant rendering of what it is to live in an urban culture that celebrates the victor and disregards the vanquished. As the bold gesture in art continues to permeate, while auction records are set and reset, while warehouses are converted to house private collections and museums continue to champion the historicized, my art analyses current manifestations of inequality and the way in which we deny the unspeakable, unimaginable and unnaceptable. I examine the struggles that we all encounter and the contradiction between awareness and reality.  The viewer is rewarded by a considered exploration of the images that circle throughout my work; recognizable images that nonetheless impose a very personal narrative.

A graduate of Georgetown University Kirkpatrick was honored with the Leonardo DaVinci Medal of Excellence and the Misty Daily Award. Kirkpatrick studies at The Art Students League of New York. A fan of the alternative art community that has developed outside the gallery and museum system, she  installs high resolution to scale prints on downtown streets and subway walls which are tough to discern from an original work. Recently back from a three month residency in Brittany, France she currently works from a collector’s barn outside of New York and from the 6th & Spring Street warehouse in New York City.