Katie B Temple

EMAIL: katiebtempleart@gmail.com
WEBSITE: www.katiebtemple.com

IG/FB: @katiebtempleart

Katie B Temple is a mixed-media artist whose paintings examine universal ideas of leaving home, not having a home, and searching for a place to call home. Her creative practice is rooted and influenced by the 17 different places she has lived in throughout her life. She also takes influence from child construction toys she played with as a child, such as building blocks, wooden logs, tinker pieces, and plastic bricks. These serve more than just nostalgia, but reflect on the delicacy it takes to create a place to call home from scratch that will last for years to come. There is this feeling you get as a child that you built something strong, but the impermanence of the structure appears when it is easily knocked over.

Katie’s distinctive, architectural style has allowed her to be an active exhibitor throughout Omaha as well as complete many commissions for clients in the United States and Canada. Locally, she has completed commissions for Benson Theatre, Kimpton Cottonwood Hotel, and Cozad Community Foundation. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Montana State University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University. Katie is represented by Anderson O’Brien Fine Art Gallery.