Kat Shevchenko, Artist & Illustrator

I am so proud to be a part of this awesome women art group! Our second show Dakini is coming up soon, your Divine Presence is requested. Triangle Collective is a group of multidisciplinary artists based in San Antonio, Texas that create art embodying the Divine Feminine. We are delighted to present our second group show, "Dakini" featuring the art of Jagwired Art, Kwanzaa Edwards, Frances Moeller, Kat Shevchenko, Maria-Jessica Alvarado and Drea Faorie. Dakini is the ancient Sanskrit word for female empowerment. Transcendent beings of energy capable of unlimited potential creation; dakinis personify the pinnacle of feminine spiritual power in this world and realms beyond. Each of the art works represents the artist's interpretation of the Dakini manifesting in their subject matter. Opening Reception First Friday March 6, 2020 6 - 11 p.m. Art Matters 1414 South Alamo Street, Blue Star Art Complex, Space 107B Art Matters is located in the Blue Star Arts Complex at 107...

 Here’s a quick walkthrough of my show in case ya missed it! I’m proud of this endeavor, it was definitely a growing pains show and I painted more and more challenging pieces than I had ever attempted, feel like it was definitely a chaotic quantum leap. I’m ready to keep evolving and growing with my craft. Thank you for sharing in my journey. 🖤 Love to everyone and happy new year! Shine on in 2019! ✨ Special thank you to Alex Rubio for believing in me and for the opportunity! Thank you Rebecca you were my rock, luv I couldn’t have done it without you!

Hello All! My solo show has been rescheduled for December 7th 2018 with a First Friday opening reception. While this was a difficult decision, I believe it was ultimately for the best and allows me to fully realize the show to a more ambitous reality than I had originally concieved throughout my process. Follow along on Instagram and my other social media channels for updates and sneak peeks. Sign up for my email list for details and updates as they occur. Thank you for your ongoing love and support! :)  

Greetings! I am in the midst of preparing for my second solo exhibition. Details to follow! For now, I would like to share some concept sketches and drawings. Trying not to reveal too much just yet... :)

The Fabbyloso Unicorn Art Show is the next show that I am participating in. I have been working diligently on creating a fabulous unicorn painting! Be there kitty kats! MWAH! Google Map Directions here! 

This is an experimental film bit I shot during the process of embellishing this print. Thought I'd play around with cuts and speed. This giclee is printed from a painting I did entitled, "Podlings".  It is a giclee printed on watercolor paper and I am using Winsor Newton gouache to add some touch ups. This was the first time I embellished a print in this way, making it more expressive and let it stand on its own as a one of a kind piece.  It is currently available  in my Etsy . The music is a loop I composed in an app called Korg iKaossilator on the Ipad, its super fun! It's available in the app store .

Hello! I have been in the midst of updating and changing the format of this blog and giving  it an overdue refresh and facelift!  Here is a video I shot of my solo show from last November, "Crux"  If you are interested in purchasing available pieces please check my store Artwork Available for Purchase from "Crux"

Hard to believe that my solo show will open tomorrow... Provenance Gallery is pleased to present, Crux, an exhibition featuring recent paintings by Kat Shevchenko. "Crux is a documentation of the the internal world of the psyche in the moments of upheaval. When I came across the the word crux, meaning, the core, or essence of something resonated with me. I knew that was the impetus of what my current paintings' theme had been revealing. While I created them I was battling my internal morass with the need to reconcile changes that had transpired within and without. Life’s trials and struggles produce alchemical reactions that forever transmute the self. In Crux, I longed to capture the beautifully chaotic process of transformation at the pivotal moment as it transpires, or in the wake of its aftermath. This mysterious process is depicted in the feminine embodiment with symbols from the natural world to reveal what is simmering beneath the surface of consciousness. At times de...

I am delighted to have a couple of paintings selected for the Art Heals Hearts: Art, Music and Poetry Exhibition benefiting the Ecumenical Center which provides therapeutic counseling services that focuses on art creation as a catalyst for healing.  Wonderful organization that does a great service to the community.  If you do not have a chance to attend the opening reception event on September 9th, the show will be up until January 6.         To Learn More About the Ecumenical Center   http://www.ecrh.org/   Art Heals Hearts Event Page http://www.ecrh.org/art-heals-hearts/   Rivard Report Art Heals Hearts Feature  http://therivardreport.com/exhibit-to-focus-on-power-of-art-in-healing-hearts/  

I'm truly happy to announce that I will be having my solo show this November at Provenance Gallery. The working title is "The Crux of Transformation."  I am attempting to decipher the mysterious and beautifully chaotic process of transformation, portrayed through portraiture of women with surrealistic symbols from the natural world within their psyches that are simmering beneath the surface, yet are manifesting in an alchemical reckoning of personal discovery. At times devastatingly emotional, at other times existentially retrospective, these are the journeys within that are seldom seen. I'll be creating new paintings for this, for now here is a my sketch-a possible direction?

It has been a crazy, dark time for me lately, and nothing enlightens and touches the soul like the words of  Rumi. This poem resonated to me this morning.   The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.   -Rumi A teaching story translated by Coleman Barks

It's been a while since I've updated the ol' blog! Been busy with art projects that I will update soon! Here is a throwback to an article I wrote last year, an artist interview I did for arts magazine, Plumage-TX featuring San Antonio-based artist, Seth Camm.  If you don't know about his work and impassioned art, you should take a moment and do so, you won't regret it. :)   Enjoy! Plumage-TX August 2015 Issue Seth Camm: Humanist Painter of Life By: Katherine Shevchenko, Art Consultant, Boerne, TX      No matter what subject San Antonio-based artist Seth Camm is portraying, there is always an utter rawness to his execution that leads to discoveries that break the bounds of the medium of paint itself.  Whether it is portraiture, still lives, florals, or a distinguished home, Camm can show the viewer an undeniable honesty. For Camm, the path of the arts has been a lifelong endeavor. “Well to begin, up until my teenage years, ...

“Women Who Dare” Reflections from an Artist’s Perspective Curated by Anel I. Flores and Sarah Castillo. Women Who Dare was an all women artists exhibition that was curated by Anel Flores of Artery Studios and Sarah Castillo of Ladybase Gallery and held at the Carver Cultural Community Center in near downtown San Antonio and ran from November 5 – November 27, 2015.    The core theme of the exhibit was to present the works of “ San Antonio women artists who stimulate, provoke, and capture her viewers; allowing space for the movement and speed of the competing world to fall away .”   The outcome of a theme of such a transcendent nature facilitated a contemplative flowering of many distinct artistic languages with interpretations ranging from self-portraits, dissection of mystical feminine archetypes to conceptual mixed pieces that explored topics such as heritage, race, fears and self-discovery.   In disclosure, I was one of the participating artists curated...

Here are some progress photos of a painting: "La Mystica" egg tempera with oil on panel  

This year was my first year to participate in Una Noche En La Gloria, Art in the Cultural Zone, an  annual arts celebration in San Antonio.   I was accepted to participate almost last minute, and I am thrilled that I did. Very grateful to be included and for the experience.  Had a lot of fun sharing my art and meeting local artists. Took a few shots of my set up and some of the action going on around me!  http://issuu.com/gqvelasquez/docs/2015_una_noche_en_la_gloria_showbil My setup  Live painting going on at Artist's Point Live painters A work in progress Virgin Mary architectural art on the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center

It was my first time participating in World Art Drop Day... The first Tuesday of every September all artists everywhere can participate by making a piece of art and then dropping it off somewhere with clues of its whereabouts by posting photos of the art and location with the hashtags #artdropday on social media.  The lucky finder is asked to post a pic with the art found or a seflie with the art if they choose with the worldartdropday hashtag.  There was actually a form that you were supposed to print out that had these directions to attach to the art, but alas I found that out a little bit late. I had really left it vague, I just wrote my name and a blank title on the back, the title was up to whoever found the piece.      I was excited about the serendiptiousness of having a spontaneous connection with a stranger through art.  I made the piece the day before and set out with my trusty basset hound on a walk to the nearby park to scout out a...

Here are some pictures from a small scale painting I am creating, done in the mische technique.From sketch to finish! "Exiguus Ovum" oil/egg tempera on Masonite Dimensions: 3" x 3" 06/2015   "Exiguus Ovum" is a journalistic piece that tries to capture what I was experiencing during a traumatic time in my life due to anxieties and fears stemming from an upcoming transition.  It left me kind of stripped bare to the bone-the very foundation of my being, which is why the figure is a skeleton.  Standing in the midst of an uncertain terrain with bloodshot eyes heavily watching over, the figure presents the golden egg; a treasure found on this treacherous solitary journey symbolizing genuine attainment of knowledge of the true inner Self.    

Here are some shots that the lovely Pamela Lozano captured of me from a live painting experience I recently had.  It was most defintely amazing and brought me out of my little bubble for a moment, I truly enjoyed sharing and can't wait to do it again! :) 

      Health is such a delicate thing. Once taken away can leave you completely blindsided at such little privileges you had taken for granted. Like being able to see clearly and function. The virus that had taken over my eye had left me in pain all day and rendered everything in a cloudy haze.  Then it spread to the other eye. I looked in the mirror. I looked into my eyes. I felt like a zombified shell of myself. My eyes were completely red and the side of my head had swelled up. My lymph node engorged golf ball size making it difficult to chew on that side of my mouth.  I had never been so scared and helpless; I downward spiraled into gloomy agitation. I couldn’t go anywhere, couldn’t really do anything that require too much eye strain, it was too painful and exhausting. Like a prison, inside myself. I finally stopped struggling and surrendered to heal on my body’s own time. Wandering in my labyrinth…What demons lay there undiscovered?  ...

Here is my latest watercolor all finished!!! *Trying to see the positive when all is lost, without loss all those seeds will never travel to become wishes fufilled.   You may purchase giclee prints of this watercolor  here