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High Noon, 2026
Oil on Linen
48 x 30
Oil on Linen
Kathryn “Katya” Dennison is currently studying at Grand Central Atelier in New York, and previously graduated with a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2023). She has always been inspired by traditional figurative art and its technical rigor, initially being trained with a Russian aesthetic background that finds its way through her current work in tandem with 19th century academic sensibilities.
High Noon was a combined effort of referential and invented elements, taking inspiration from classical characteristics of fantasy and chiaroscuro combined with the graphic and structural aspects of Soviet aesthetics. This painting is a stepping stone to a broader desire for larger, cinematic/multi-figure projects that want to emulate the tradition of narrative genre work.
Based on the experience of sleep paralysis, where one would reactively hallucinate whilst also recognizing the need to break free from being unable to move, the two figures reflect opposing states of truth caught in the middle within a dreamlike world.
48 x 30
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High Noon, 2026
Oil on Linen
48 x 30
Kathryn “Katya” Dennison is currently studying at Grand Central Atelier in New York, and previously graduated with a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2023). She has always been inspired by traditional figurative art and its technical rigor, initially being trained with a Russian aesthetic background that finds its way through her current work in tandem with 19th century academic sensibilities.
High Noon was a combined effort of referential and invented elements, taking inspiration from classical characteristics of fantasy and chiaroscuro combined with the graphic and structural aspects of Soviet aesthetics. This painting is a stepping stone to a broader desire for larger, cinematic/multi-figure projects that want to emulate the tradition of narrative genre work.
Based on the experience of sleep paralysis, where one would reactively hallucinate whilst also recognizing the need to break free from being unable to move, the two figures reflect opposing states of truth caught in the middle within a dreamlike world.
48 x 30
Oil on Linen
Click artwork to view details (it may take a few seconds to load)
High Noon, 2026
Oil on Linen
48 x 30
Oil on Linen Mounted on Cradled Panel
25 x 30
Kathryn “Katya” Dennison is currently studying at Grand Central Atelier in New York, and previously graduated with a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2023). She has always been inspired by traditional figurative art and its technical rigor, initially being trained with a Russian aesthetic background that finds its way through her current work in tandem with 19th century academic sensibilities.
High Noon was a combined effort of referential and invented elements, taking inspiration from classical characteristics of fantasy and chiaroscuro combined with the graphic and structural aspects of Soviet aesthetics. This painting is a stepping stone to a broader desire for larger, cinematic/multi-figure projects that want to emulate the tradition of narrative genre work.
Based on the experience of sleep paralysis, where one would reactively hallucinate whilst also recognizing the need to break free from being unable to move, the two figures reflect opposing states of truth caught in the middle within a dreamlike world.