About Katerina
Katerina Gordeeva is a Ukrainian-born artist based in Cancún, Mexico.
Her practice grows from an ongoing search for presence and emotional clarity, exploring how emotion moves through color and surface to reveal the small, quiet stories that emerge in moments of openness.
She works intuitively, approaching painting as an open dialogue with color, memory, and the shifting inner states that shape how we experience the world. She allows sensation and the responsiveness of her materials to guide the process. Each moment — from the first spark of an idea, through layering and mark-making, to the quiet contemplation of the drying surface — becomes a meditation, a transformation, and a medium of its own.
After two decades in illustration and concept art, her transition into abstract painting marked a shift toward a more personal and contemplative direction — one that values authenticity over perfection or control.
Katerina’s recent focus on silk reflects this evolution. Its transparency preserves every gesture, while its delicacy responds to each touch, revealing the work’s development as a living, shifting surface. This sensitivity echoes her interest in capturing quiet emotional states — honest, fluid, and deeply felt.
Her paintings invite the viewer into a space of reflection, offering room to sense, interpret, and connect through color and form.
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Artist Statement
For me, painting on silk — a surface that keeps changing with light and surroundings — mirrors the fragility and resilience of the inner world.
A world that can be marked, shaped, or overwhelmed, yet carries every trace of what has happened to it, building up on every impact, with no way to erase the past. Creating a unique story, layered with its own rhythm, beauty, and depth.
In this process, silk becomes more than a material. Its delicate transparency mirrors the vulnerability I explore in myself, in the work, and in the spaces between us.
Painting becomes a dialogue, a reflection, an invitation - to witness, to connect, and to share in the quiet, unfolding story of transformation.
