Kat Collins is a mixed-media abstract artist based in Easton, Pennsylvania, whose work pulses with emotion, movement, and raw humanity. With a BFA from Mount Vernon Nazarene University and a deep intuitive approach to creation, Kat explores the ever-shifting landscape of human experience through expressive mark-making, layered textures, and vibrant color.
Her latest body of work, including the Grit and Beauty series, dives into the tension between opposites—strength and struggle, grace and grit. Through spontaneous gestures and rich, tactile surfaces, she invites viewers to sit with the complexity of life: the mess, the resilience, the bloom that comes through friction. “Where there is beauty, there is grit,” she says, “and where there is grittiness, there is grace.”
Kat’s contribution to Life Is Better at NoName Gallery reflects her belief that art is both mirror and medicine. Her paintings don’t seek to capture perfect details, but rather the essence of a moment—the feeling of a place, the rhythm of a memory. Fueled by nature, travel, music, and poetry, her work becomes a visual journey, one where color and emotion lead the way.
Her work has been exhibited throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and North Carolina in venues such as the Ronald K. De Long Gallery, Sigal Museum, and David E. Rodale and Rodale Family Galleries. She is represented by PXP Contemporary.
Through her emotionally charged, intuitive process, Kat continues to create art that speaks to the soul—art that reminds us that even in life’s tension, there is beauty worth holding onto.
