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.

This past Summer, Chapman’s work was on display in her debut museum solo-show, Praying With Two Dirty Hands, at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC.

She later had a solo-show titled, Out to Pasture, at Southside Gallery in Oxford, MS.

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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!