“The thing about Katherine Kousi’s work is that you want to think she makes beautiful paintings. You want to think they are delicate, pretty, and in some of the more subtle abstract works, maybe even naive. But that is all a trick. If you don’t look under the hood, you will only see the top most layer of what is actually a densely built surrogate structure encasing her soul. These are wall sculptures and they are made by hand with the materials one might find under the lean-to of a burly man who lives in a shack: Wood, glycerine, lath, wire, resin, insect remains, dried foliage, pigment. And they are as toxic to make as they are beautiful to behold. In their beauty, they successfully masquerade as paintings. But in they’re making, you come to know they are also gutt wrenching. Kousi’s figurative works have an ability to blush at the viewer sometimes.”