Kathryn O'Grady was born in 1956 in Birmingham, Alabama. She received a BFA from Michigan State University in 1978, and her MFA from the University of Texas in 1982. She moved to Maryland in 1997, where she paints and maintains a huge garden, a family, chickens and cats. Her work has been shown in solo and two person shows over the past twenty years in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston. Her group exhibitions have included Zoomorphism at the Dallas Zoo in 1988, Landmarks at Gallery 44 in Boulder, Colorado in 1989, Fertile Imaginations at Women and Their Work in Austin in 1990, Common Grounds at the Tyler Museum of Art in 1999. She has been shown at The Art Center in Waco in 2000, The Grace Museum in Abilene in 2000, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in 2001, and several times at the Governor's Mansion in Austin since 2001. Most recently, in 2004 she was part of the Painting Invitational at Neptune Fine Arts in New York. The New Horizons: Sixteenth Annual Summer Group Exhibition at the Steven Scott Gallery marks her debut in the Mid- Atlantic region. Her work is in the collections of American Airlines, Mobile Oil Corporation, USAA, MBank, the Dallas-Fort Worth Medical Center, Seton Hospital and Saint David's Hospital in Austin, the Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo, and others.In 2007, O'Grady's paintings were acquired by the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD as well as the Maryland Artists Collection of the University of Maryland, University College in College Park

Sheep and Leaves, 2007
oil on canvas, 24 x 24"
$2650






Three Sheep, 2007
oil on canvas, 24 x 24"
Private Collection






Perovskia, 2004
oil on canvas, 12 x 12"
$975






New Tree - Red Grass, 2002
oil on canvas, 12 x 12"
$975






Winter Woods, 2001
oil on canvas, 12 x 12"
$975

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My work is fueled by a lifelong obsession with color and awe at the monstrous complexity of the natural world. For the last several years I have lived and painted in rural Maryland. I am in love with the weather, the crops, the light, the dirt, the weeds. I am especially interested in the places where people's plans for the landscape collide with the riot of life that is there to begin with. Plants have an agenda of their own. I like the silliness, the frailty, the vanity of the human marks. I like the tornado of forces at work in nature. There is so much more going on than we can say.