"I don't decide what a painting will be — I let it show me." · Las Vegas, NV
Kat
Tatz
Original Fine Art Catalog
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“Step into a Kat Tatz painting and you're never quite sure if you're falling down the rabbit hole or waking up from it. For more than 25 years, this Las Vegas original has been turning showgirls, cottontails, and cultural icons loose inside gilded antique frames — building a world where transformation is the whole point, and nothing is required to stay what it started out as.”
— Kat Tatz
The Process
Inside the Studio
The Painting Process
The Painting Process Kat rarely begins a painting with a fixed plan. She starts from a feeling, a character, or sometimes just a color, and lets the piece tell her what it wants to become as she works — a habit she credits with keeping her creatively restless after more than two decades in the studio. Faces come first; it's the discipline her father taught her at the kitchen table when she was four, and it still shows in the way she builds a portrait from the bone structure outward before layering in color and mood. Her toolkit spans oil, acrylic, and colored pencil, often within the same body of work, and her sculptural instincts show up in an unmistakable signature move: sourcing genuine antique and vintage frames and building the painting's narrative to fit inside them, so the frame stops being packaging and becomes part of the story the piece is telling. A workshop in New York with acclaimed realist Daniel E. Greene — whom she describes as working more like a scientist than an artist — sharpened her technical discipline. But the wildness of her imagery, and the rascally White Rabbit who keeps turning up in it, comes from somewhere no workshop teaches.
