Statement
My current work is an exploration of interior landscapes, abstract images of wildlife taking over structured geometric shapes. These painted paper collages are blurring the space between the given and the guessed. As a mother and teacher, I am curious about the dichotomy between the wild and the structured, the calm and chaotic and how to strike balance in my work. In the book Eccentric Spaces, Harbison says “gardens are built on the idea of contrast: one thing superimposed on another thing, art on wildness” - this idea is exciting to me- art on wildness. These collage pieces allow me to find ways to explore hard and soft edges overlapping.
I am curious about how quilts and interior spaces, overlapping plants and organic shapes speak to the idea of us coexisting, honoring and appreciating it all at once.
Bio
Kate Chassner is a mixed media artist and art educator based in Asheville, North Carolina. She received her BA in Art History at FSU and her MFA at Western Carolina University. Kate has shown her work in galleries and museums across the east coast. Her current work is an exploration of the use of collage to portray interior landscapes, plant life and quilt patterns to speak to her southern roots and appreciation of place.
Kate Chassner
B. Kennesaw, Georgia, 1984
Education & Employment
2022 Master of Fine Art, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
2007 Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2007 Museum Studies, Summer Course, Paris, France
2011- Present, Art Teacher and Admin, Rainbow Community School, Asheville, NC
Awards & Residencies
2025 Solo Residency at Kolaj Institute in New Orleans, LA
2023 Presenter and Panelist at Kolaj Fest in New Orleans, LA
2021 Scholarship to Penland School of Craft (2 week paper making course)
2021 LivLab, Research Grant, Cullowhee, NC
2020 Re:Structure, Summer Research Assistantship. Cullowhee, NC
2019 Secrets They Keep, Art of Caring at Mission Hospital. Asheville, NC
Solo Exhibitions
2025-26 Nothing Too Small, Tiny Gallery, Asheville, NC
2025 Art on Wildness, Cooperative Coffee, Asheville, NC
2024 Soft Sides and Other Works, Odd’s Cafe, Asheville, NC
2023 Everything Sooner or Later is Part of Everything Else, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2022 Overlap, Walker Arts Center, Asheville, NC
2021 Behind The Gate, Haiku I Do, Asheville, NC
2019 Actually Connected to Everything, Odd's Cafe, Asheville, NC
2018 Your Hands, Izzy's, Asheville, NC
Group Exhibitions
2025 Portals & Pathways, Arrowhead Gallery Old Fort, NC
2025 You Are Here, Asheville, NC
2025 Curating and Exhibiting work, Both/And, Revolve Gallery, Asheville, NC
2025 The Gardener, Kinhouse Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
2024 Off the Wall, ARTS Southeast, Savannah, GA
2024 Feel the Heal, Bascom Art Center, Highlands, NC
2024 Poolside, Jag Gallery, Key West, FL
2024 Small Works Group Show, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, NC
2023 Cold Warmth, ZanZan Gallery, Asheville, NC
2023 Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Combined Talents: Southern Futurisms, FSU Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL
2022 Art of the South, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2022 Wax & Wane, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN
2022 Master of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition, WCU Fine Art Museum, Cullowhee, NC
2022 MFA Student Showcase, Asheville Regional Airport, NC
2022 Middlemost, Revolve, Asheville, NC
2021 Seeds, Westobou Gallery, Augusta, GA
2021 Whatever Coming and Going Is, Ramp Studios, Asheville, NC
2021 Fiction of the Real, Revolve, Asheville, NC
2020 Next Wave, Ramp Studios, Asheville, NC
2020 Hope is A Horizon, Revolve, Asheville, NC
2019 Art Walk, River Arts District, Cottonmill Studios, Asheville, NC
2019 Incoming Something, Gallery 130, Cullowhee, NC
2019 Mandalas for Hope, Organized and participated in art fundraiser for International Day of Peace Rally, Asheville, NC
2019 Big Crafty, Downtown Asheville, NC
Publications:
2024 Arts to Hearts Magazine
2023 Visionary Art Collective, Virtual Exhibition and publication
2023 Suboart Magazine, Digital publication