Kate Meissner: Replica

January 21 – March 15, 2025

Opening and Gallery Talk: January 24, 5-7pm 

Los Angeles-based artist Kate Meissner’s exquisitely painted canvases are luridly seductive and grotesquely sublime. Meissner’s work subverts traditional figurative genre painting through her voyeuristic compositions, unnaturally saturated colors, and meticulously detailed surfaces. Drawing just as much from surrealist filmmakers as from past painting masters, Meissner’s work evokes fantastical private moments from a stage play that the audience was never intended to see.

Meissner received her MFA in painting from Yale (2021) and her BFA from California Polytechnic University (2017). Her 2024 AEIVA exhibition will be the artist’s first solo, museum exhibition.

Image: Kate Meissner, Chromatic Aberration, 2023. Oil on canvas, 43 x 48 in. Gift of Sasha and Charlie Sealy. Collection of the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, UAB.