Bruce Katlin
Arroyo Seco, NM
Angel de Morro
Oil on panel
20" x 16" x .24"
2024
$675
About
Bruce Katlin’s eclectic background includes high-altitude trail running to landscape oil painting; wood carvings, climate change influenced sculptures, performance art, and fiction writing.
Recently, Bruce has decided to take a new trail and is working on a large scale, multi media installation focused on the gun violence epidemic. He is dedicated to addressing this urgent issue through developing his “We the Target” art installation.
In a world plagued by the gun violence pandemic, Bruce believes that art serves as a vital medium for social change. His work is a fusion of emotion and advocacy, capturing the devastating impact of gun violence on individuals, families, and communities. Through his art, he aims to engage viewers on a visceral level, prompting reflection and inspiring action. His project ranges from hauntingly realistic portraits of victims and survivors to abstract compositions symbolizing the chaos and trauma wrought by firearms.
As a landscape painter, Bruce combines his love and passion for high mountain trail running and plein air oil painting which, he has discovered, creates an unparalleled nirvana-like state, where pragmatic thinking and intuitiveness flow effortlessly. For the past several years, Bruce has been researching the effects of exercise and its link to creativity and divergent thinking, communicating with National and International research labs compiling their findings along with his own. Bruce’s impressionistic and abstract paintings have been shown in regional shows and exhibits. He has been selected to show his work at the Taos Abstract Artist Collective during their October 2023 exhibition.
Bruce’s diverse background also includes acting, writing, directing and producing for theatre and film. Bruce attended Penn State University, Metro State College, Denver, CO, City College of New York and Circle in the Square, New York majoring in Psychology, English and Theatre.
Bruce Katlin lives and works in Taos, New Mexico.
Artist Statement
I combine my passion for various art mediums and love of intense physical activity to tease out the soul and energy of Mother Nature’s shapes and objects.
Painting while trail running in the wide and expansive canvas of northern New Mexico, where nature is the ‘church’ and the natural landscape the choir, provides me an unparalleled nirvana-like state, where pragmatic thinking and intuitiveness flow effortlessly. The euphoria follows me back to the studio and manifests into oil-on-panel impressionistic and abstract paintings. The essence of these pilgrim-like journeys has also found its way into wood carvings as well as sculptures created from food refuse and other natural materials.
The confluence of mind, body and spirit is powerful and with countless vistas to view and trails to run, my hope is to inspire peace, beauty, and respect for the environment by way of the creative process.
Art from Bruce Katlin in other TAAC exhibitions
