Kate Mueller

Kate Mueller has made art all her life, with frequent and sometimes lengthy hiatuses. In her early to mid-twenties, she lived in New York City where she did large surreal oil paintings in her Manhattan loft. Starting in her late twenties, after a move to Vermont, she began working in pastel. For about fifteen years, Mueller worked exclusively from the figure, eventually expanding into portraits and landscapes, in both pastel and oil. She works nearly always from life, from models and plein air. During the pandemic, she returned to oil, creating abstract paintings incorporating biomorphic shapes.

Mueller studied at Goddard College, Vermont, with Anci Bozena Slovak and James Gahagan and took classes at the Art Students League, in New York, with Morton Kaish and Gabriel Laderman. For years she attended, on and off, the Thursday night art group in Montpelier, mentored by the late Billy Brauer. She has exhibited throughout Vermont, including the Governor’s Corridor, the Vermont Arts Council, both in Montpelier, and Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield. She was a featured artist at the Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, and has had solo exhibits at Dibden Gallery (now Julian Scott Memorial Gallery), Johnson State College (now Northern Vermont University), and Christine Price Gallery, Castleton University, among other places. Her work is held privately, both nationally and internationally.

The following link will take you to katemuellerart.com, where you can see some of her work, read her artist's statement, and contact her directly.