A native of Monterey, CA, Kathryn Greenwald focused on painting at the University of California Santa Cruz where she earned a BA in Art with Honors. She completed an MA in Art at Humboldt State University; concurrently, she trained as a teacher. The Colorado Plateau was home for twenty-seven years. She taught art at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Northern Arizona University and in the Flagstaff School District. In 2010, she relocated to Carmel Valley and became an artist member of the Carmel Art Association in 2014. The same year she was juried into the California Society of Printmakers. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Some of note include: Sullivan Galleries, Salt Lake City; Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff; Coconino Community College, Flagstaff; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Hotel Cocumella, Sorrento, Italy; South Australia Living Artists’ Festival, Adelaide, Australia; Bluseed Studio, Saranac Lake, NY; and Monterey Museum of Art. In Kathryn Greenwald’s most recent artwork, she is highly inspired by The Deep Sea exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in which glowing red and violet invertebrates, sea angels and bloody-belly comb jellies move in the dark. The biggest ecosystem on earth is still being revealed. Added to her experiences with the vibrant world seen snorkeling and walking our nearby shores, her work uses abstraction to explore the living and threatened sea. Spatial dimensions–physical, subjective, and unknown–are expressed with color, geometry and the flow of melted beeswax with pigment in these pieces. Droplets and rivulets of encaustic create myriad unique patterns that suggest layers of life within the oceans, both stunningly beautiful and imperiled, as she meditates on interconnectedness.