Katherine Buglione (b. New York, 1991) studied Fine Arts at Fordham University, where she was particularly influenced by the work of expressionist-era painters. She is drawn to portraiture not as a fixed likeness, but as a site of distortion and vulnerability. Working in paint, pen, and moving image, her subject is the fragile spark of presence, nestled between tenderness and collapse. Buglione’s work explores the tension between the ordinary and the uncanny, resisting resolution, often dwelling in fracture and moments we turn away from. 

Buglione describes her approach as less concerned with concluding a narrative than with exposing the moment when a narrative might begin. Her paintings confront the fragile intersections of intimacy and estrangement, with others and with ourselves.