Courtney Applequist

About the Artist

Courtney Applequist is an interdisciplinary artist working in the greater Washington DC area.  Pulling from her education & experience in architectural design, her work explores the intersection between art, architecture & the human psyche.  She holds a BFA from Baylor University and has exhibited at various juried shows throughout the area, as well as being a included in private collections throughout the US.  

Artist's Statement

Courtney Applequist’s highly textural paintings depict atomized reflections of her observed experiences, moments that are simultaneously fractured and whole.  Using primarily oil paint & charcoal to exaggerate value and color contrasts, her work depicts a palpable tension between a landscape classically rendered and a splintered mosaic of it’s individual parts; a tension between the symbolic and the real, the ideal and the passing. Pulling from her education in architectural design, she uses found geometries of light value & saturated to color to move around the surface as she responds to the observed subject, creating a psychological remapping of observation, emotion and memory.