Katy Ann Gilmore

Katy Ann Gilmore (1989) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. She received a BA in Art and Mathematics from Greenville University (Greenville, IL) in 2011 and her MFA from Azusa Pacific University (Azusa, CA) in 2014.

She attended the Red Bull House of Art Residency in 2016. She has work in corporate collections such as Google (Mountain View, CA), Vans (Costa Mesa, CA), Facebook (Playa Vista, CA), Uber (Palo Alto, CA), Northeastern University (Boston, MA), and TrueCar (Santa Monica, CA). She also completed store window commissions for Hermes in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Gilmore has been included in publications such as Design Milk, High Fructose, The Creators Project, and others. Her work has been shown at Art Market San Francisco, Seattle Art Fair, Art Palm Springs, VOLTA in Basel, Switzerland and VOLTA in New York City.

The illusion of depth and space are crucial to how we take in our environments and navigate the world around us. We build up these images through movement, and I ultimately want to get the viewer moving around in physical space. Vanishing points shift, shapes get skewed, and a form on the wall looks more like an entrance into another universe. This movement and subsequent experience hopefully plants some curiosity about how we automatically construct views of the world around us given cues via visual phenomena.

I'm curious about the same effect with my mural work but on a more encompassing scale. This shift in scale is particularly interesting to me as I'm inspired by architectural constructs, and how simple lines can construct perspectives, helping us to solidify (or question) our ideas about the space we inhabit. Similar to the smaller pieces, shifts in your viewpoint skew the lines and create alternate interpretations of what's happening around you.

Find this artist and many more in our collection of works from the Op Art Movement.