[photo credit: Pasadena Village]
On Oct. 29, the Los Angeles-based artist will discuss how those callings inform each other during a free public talk at Pasadena Village.
“Working primarily in oil, Kate’s practice is influenced by the vulnerability and empathy cultivated in caregiving, and themes of queer identity,” according to their artist biography.
The 90-minute conversation, starting at 2 p.m., will examine how Muehlemann-Cataldo’s 20-year nursing career — spanning intensive care units, home hospice and sexual-assault forensic examination — shapes their figurative portraits. They paint subjects in home environments, using personal objects to tell stories.
“I am interested in what comes before our ideas of who we are, and what remains once the things we use to define ourselves fall away,” Muehlemann-Cataldo wrote in their artist statement.
The artist studied at The Art Students League of New York and The New York Academy of Art. As artist-in-residence at Side Street Projects from January through May, they developed The Constellations Project, funded by the Pasadena Community Foundation and SAGE Equity Innovation Lab.
The project uses portraiture and oral history to foster “connections between queer elders and youth, nurturing intergenerational bonds and community care.” An exhibition ran at Red Hen Press in Pasadena from June 28 through Aug. 14.
Artist Talk with Kate Muehlemann-Cataldo will run on Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 2:00 p.m. -3:30 p.m. Village Office Community Room, 236 W. Mountain St., #113, Pasadena. For more information, visit https://pasadena.helpfulvillage.com/events/3967-artist-talk-with-kate-muehlemann-cataldo. Ticket: Free; registration required; limited to 23 participants.
