Kathy Korn was born in September, 1946 in Joplin, Missouri.  Fate and fortune smiled upon her to be born into and guided by the creative influences of a family profoundly embedded in the arts; her mother was an actress, her father was a photographer, and her grandmother was an artist and a writer.

In 1971, Ms. Korn received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Chouinard Art School [California Institute of the Arts], in Los Angeles, California.  Chouinard's temperate, individually-focused program and academic philosophy allowed Kathy to develop her own unique style – unfettered by the rote lessons of contemporary or long-passed Masters. 

In 1974, she moved to Eureka Springs, Arkansas and opened a business called Stuffed Zoo where she created and sewed fanciful stuffed animals and elaborate quilts.  In 1981, she completed her Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in painting and design  at the University of Arkansas. 

Throughout Ms. Korn's career, she has been a student of the arts with a long, notable list of continuing education courses beyond her Masters degree ranging from botanical drawing, editorial illustration, and textile design.  However, it was her study of drawing and painting in Guadalajara, Mexico that she considers an epiphany.  In Guadalajara, her creative mind's eye was forever captured by amazing patterns and recurring motifs, extraordinary vibrancy of color, and the freedom of imagination in which those components were used by Mexican artists and artisans.   In this freedom of imagination, she found her own compelling creative voice; it would prove to be a maturational and defining leap that over the years provides Ms. Korn with a deep-seated confidence, a willingness for and conservation of unambiguous whimsy, an intense appreciation of detail and color, and meticulous attention to the vision, voice, and dialogue with which her work engages the public.

From 1986-2003, Ms. Korn enjoyed a career as a textile colorist and designer in New York City with such industry giants as F. Schumacher & Company, Cowtan & Tout, and Brunschwig & Fils as well as a position as In-Painter and Colorist with Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City.

Following her distinguished career in the textile industry, Ms. Korn returned to painting full time.  In its description of Ms. Korn's work, the Ceres Gallery in Manhattan concluded, “... Ms. Korn's paintings represent a diary of life as she sees it.  Her sense of humor and color brings a vibrancy to the work that shows in the faces of the people who view her exhibits.  To walk among her paintings and figures is to enter a fantasy and vision that can only delight the viewer.”

Ms. Korn's work has been exhibited across the United States, including California, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, New Jersey, and New York.  Mr. Korn and her husband live in Hudson, New York.

Galeria 19 Fine Art in Fredericksburg, Texas is Kathy Korn's exclusive representative in Texas.

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