Studio — Austin, TX

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KatiyanaNova
Portrait of Katiyana Nova in her studio beside a framed plaster cast.

Austin, TX — 2025

Portraits of identity in flux — some painted, some taken directly from the body.

Canvases that shout. Sculpture that lingers.
Plaster cast from skin, then layered in paint and texture until it becomes something new.

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Artist holding a brush in front of a wet mixed-media canvas on a balcony.

Process

Oil, spray enamel, paint marker, plaster, gauze, marble dust. No sketches. The surface gets built up and scraped back until the drips land where they want to.

Figure on wet sand under moonlight at the shoreline.

That conversation is the best part of the job.