Kat Green

is a contemporary abstract painter based in High Point, North Carolina, where she works from her studio at Cohab Space. She creates both intimate small-scale works and large-format paintings across paper, canvas, and wood panels using mixed media.

Born in South Carolina, Green began her career in the Southeast before spending several years living and working in the California desert of Joshua Tree. She has since returned to the region, bringing with her a practice shaped by changing environments and long arcs of transition.

She has been painting professionally for over twenty years, and her work is held in private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Artist’s Statement

My paintings are built through a process of accumulation and loss. I begin by creating what I think of as memories. These take the form of shapes, lines, gestures, and marks that establish a history on the surface. These early moments are intuitive and expressive, and for a time they exist clearly. Then I begin to bury them.

Through layering, scraping, veiling, and repainting, much of what was once present becomes obscured or disappears entirely. Some fragments remain visible. Others are only hinted at. The final painting is not a record of what was made, but of what survives.

This process mirrors the way memory and experience function in our own lives. Time edits relentlessly. What once felt vivid becomes altered, softened, or lost. Some moments persist in fragments. Others dissolve completely. The surface becomes a kind of quiet archaeology, a place where traces of what came before are embedded but no longer fully accessible.

There is no literal narrative in the work. Instead, the paintings speak to impermanence, erosion, and the slow, inevitable shifting of inner landscapes. They hold the tension between presence and disappearance, between what is remembered and what is gone.

In the end, what remains is not the story itself, but its residue.