Katherine Gagnon
Katherine Gagnon is a contemporary artist and teacher based in Charleston, SC. With an interest in the meeting of time and place, Gagnon explores how the beauty and surprise of a light condition helps us see with new eyes to expand our thinking. She combines watercolor and oil pastel on paper, layering these mediums to find harmony and contrast. She shows her work at the Lambert’s Cove Inn on Martha’s Vineyard and is getting ready for an exhibition at Julep on Queen Street in Charleston this November. Her work is featured in private collections locally and throughout the United States.
Gagnon holds a BA from Colby College (Waterville, ME) in Art History and Studio Art and an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art’s LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting (Baltimore, MD). Residencies include Wintertide Retreat at Millay Arts, Austerlitz, NY (2023), Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY (2017), Art Farm, Marquette, NE (2014), and being the first Maryland Institute College of Art-St. Mary’s College of Maryland Artist House Teaching Fellow in Residence in 2014. She currently teaches at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston and gives private art lessons.
