Kate Fleming, b. 1992
Based in Arlington, VA.
I am an oil painter, a printmaker, and a documentarian of the human-built landscape. I capture specific moments in time, painting and drawing the in-between spaces and mundane objects that quietly dominate our visual experience of the world. I often work directly from life and primarily en plein air, heavily influenced by the working methods of American street photographers. What does my world really look like? What can I see today that I couldn’t see yesterday and won’t see tomorrow?
Photo by Tom Woodruff.
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EDUCATION
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2010–2014
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Summer Travel Intensive Program, Sorrento, Italy
Summer 2013
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
AUGUST, IA&A Hillyer, Washington, DC, 2024
Through the Windshield, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, 2023
People from Away, 2900 M, Washington, DC, 2022
The Hum of the Road, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, DC, 2022
Shadow and Light, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, DC, 2018
Beyond the Studio: On-Site Work By Kate Fleming and Tom Woodruff, Falls Church Arts, 2017
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Wish You Were Here, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA, 2024
Transcendence, Transformer/Katzen Center, Washington, DC, 2024
Hickok Cole Art Night, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC, 2024
Enormous Tiny Art 36, Nahcotta, Portsmouth, NH, 2024
Bethesda Painting Awards Finalists, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD, 2023
Witching Hour, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, DC, 2023
Co-Create, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN, 2023
Arms Stretched Towards the Clouds, Gallery 3700, Arlington, VA, 2023
SUPERPOSITION, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, DC, 2022
Inside Out, Upside Down, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2021
Monochrome Collective x By the People, Washington, DC, 2019
POW! WOW! DC International Mural Festival, Washington, DC, 2018
4th Annual Hand Pulled Prints: The Current Practice in Printmaking, Site: Brooklyn, NY, NY, 2018
3rd Annual Hand Pulled Prints: The Current Practice in Printmaking, Site: Brooklyn, NY, NY, 2017
Artomatic, Arlington, VA, 2017
Ink It: Contemporary Print Practices, BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, MD, 2017
The Contemporary Print, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas, 2017
2nd Annual Hand Pulled Prints: The Current Practice in Printmaking, Site: Brooklyn, NY, NY, 2016
Scenes in the City, Falls Church City Hall, Falls Church, VA, 2015
Printmaking, Falls Church Arts: Artspace, Falls Church, VA, 2015
Artists At Work, S. Dillon Ripley Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2015
Emerging Artists , The Drawing Room Gallery, Cos Cob, CT, 2014
GRANTS/AWARDS
Third Place, Bethesda Painting Awards, 2023
FY2016 Spotlight Artist Grant, Arlington County Cultural Affairs, 2015
First Place, Falls Church Arts Plein Air Painting Competition, 2015
RESIDENCIES
Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, 2023–present
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, 2019
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, DC, 2018
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, 2017
PRESS
The Washington Post | Mark Jenkins
"Among the highlights are... Kate Fleming’s tiny, red-flecked studies of car-culture features and locations"
East City Art | Claudia Rousseau
“...these little paintings, thickly surfaced with oil on gessoed Arches watercolor paper, are elegant in their simplicity and depth. Their small size draws the viewer, but they look especially good from a bit of distance where the forms seem to stand out more clearly. They are truly fascinating in their own quiet way."
"Artists Kate Fleming and Tom Woodruff are heirs to the North American propensity for continental wanderlust. Their 50 States Project follows a long-standing tradition of wanting to roam from coast-to-coast, through forests and deserts, cities and towns, in search of America."
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Janelle Jessen
“Fleming and Woodruff have a vision for documenting the now, but they never imagined their trip would encompass a time when so much change was taking place, including the pandemic, demonstrations and the 2020 election. "
WJLA ABC7 | Caroline Patrickis
East City Art | Elsabé Johnson Dixon
"While transforming a particular space into a temporary canvas to create a dramatic abstract public artwork, Fleming’s site-specific work is both conceptually engaging and complicated, while also understandable by a broad audience."