Katie Runde is a contemporary realist oil painter based in Leicester, VT. Before
apprenticing under master realist painter Evan Wilson, she studied saxophone
performance, folklore, and religion—interests that continue to influence her work.
Her ongoing series of large-scale portraits of musicians both revel in the galvanizing,
high-key, even transcendent energy of a live performance and honor the still center that
persists in heart of those moments between musician and instrument, self and public.
Runde seeks to articulate multiple dimensions within each captured point in time—the
core of solitude that lies between the musician and their music, the center from which
each voice is found and each life lived.
She is grateful to be able to bring this particular selection of paintings to UVMMC,
where over the last year and a half she has interned through several units of Clinical
Pastoral Education and come to deeply appreciate the patients, families, and hardworking
staff who pass these hallways.
