Kate Pincus-Whitney

Born 1993, USA

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

Kate Pincus-Whitney earned her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Pincus-Whitney intermingles in her art the three basic human needs: food, security, and love, something she came to envision through her upbringing in which the kitchen, as a physical and emotional space, played a very important role. In her canvases, the many symbols attached to sharing a meal and to the theatre of the dinner table are mobilised to establish a colourful and dense relationship with contemporary concerns of cultural identity. At the same time, by doing this, Pincus-Whitney places her work in a dialogue with the long tradition of representation and meaning of food in the history of art.