kathleen youngquist

Biography

Kathleen Youngquist was born in Hollywood, California, to her father, a Walt Disney animator, and her mother, a librarian. From an early age, she spent much of her time drawing, painting, weaving, and making pottery. She lives and works in Healdsburg, CA.

She worked with clay from (1970-1989), transitioning to painted pop-rivet steel forms to oil painting on canvas. She studied art in California, New York, France, and Texas receiving an individual Artist Grant from the City of San Antonio, TX (1993).

She holds a BFA degree from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and an MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio: Teaching 3-D Design (1989-92); Teaching Drawing (1992-94) at the San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX.

She was the curator for The Figurative Point of View Exhibition (2004) at The Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, where she was an Art Instructor for 15 years (1996-2011). Youngquist’s work is in numerous private collections, Represented in the SFMOMA Artist’s Gallery (2005-2015), and currently represented in the Erickson Fine Art Gallery, Healdsburg, California.

Youngquist’s current oil paintings on canvas are a departure from her earlier narrative-figurative work, exploring the connection and separation of her subjects and environments, using an intuitive, improvisational approach to suggest the energy, tension, mystery, interaction, and gesture in a suspended moment.

Youngquist’s work is inspired by nature, current events, personal memory, and rhythms of music & dance to depict space, discover shape, form, line, and movement across the surface of the canvas.