Currently based in Charleston, SC, Katelyn Chapman creates work that explores episodes of working-class life in America’s rural South through the lens of her own family and friends in the Midlands of South Carolina. She indexes her upbringing in this place by referencing backroad dispositions often in conjunction with symbols of faith and Christian iconography.

By painting these accounts, Chapman celebrates, honors, and shows reverence towards the customs and traditions of the rural working-class South.

Chapman’s work is currently on view in her debut museum solo-show, Praying With Two Dirty Hands, at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC from August 13th-September 24th.

She will have another solo exhibition entitled, Out to Pasture, at Southside Gallery in Oxford, MS from November 6th-29th.

If purchasing an original painting is not in your budget right now, Signed Limited Edition Prints like the one below are a great option! Prints start at $135.

After 5 years teaching in higher education, Chapman left the world of academia to pursue art full time in 2024, but still teaches occasional workshops on drawing, painting, and grant writing for artists!

Featured Workshop Opportunity:

Learn the origin stories behind 5 selected pigments & how to turn them into paint. Join this workshop and you’ll take home 5 tubes of your own hand-made oil paint! A few spots remain. Reserve your spot here!