Katherine Buglione’s work dwells in the liminal space between the fleeting gesture and emotional persistence. With an acute attentiveness to expression, she captures faces and moments that might otherwise slip into anonymity, drawing the viewer into a charged pause. Her portraits are not mere likenesses—they are invitations to dwell in ambiguity, to perceive what is withheld as much as what is revealed.

Buglione’s Guest Checks series reclaims the ephemeral: faces drawn on restaurant receipt paper become double-sided, multimedia objets d’art, straddling physical and digital realms. These works probe the tension between daily labor and creative impulse, using materials that speak to transience and value.   Meanwhile, her Skin Horse portraits weave subtle rabbit imagery into her subjects—a nod to vulnerability, becoming, and the weathered truths of human presence.  

Across her practice, Buglione leans into the poetic friction between control and instinct. Her brushwork alternately hovers and pulses; her forms balance suggestion and structure. She is less concerned with concluding a narrative than with exposing the moment when a narrative might begin. In this regard, her paintings demand curiosity—they ask the viewer not simply to look, but to hesitate, reflect, and inhabit.

In her hands, a face becomes a pivot point: between the visible and the hidden, the performed and the interior, the remembered and the imagined. Her goal is not to resolve emotional complexity but to let it breathe—so that the ordinary might hold a charged resonance, and the unfinished might carry its own truth.

Katherine Buglione paints the fault lines of being human. Her figures bend and linger in uneasy poses, caught between tenderness and collapse. Faces flicker with exhaustion, longing, defiance, unguarded moments most of us try to hide.

She works in paint, pen, and moving image, but her subject is constant: the fragile spark of presence. A candid portrait scrawled on a restaurant slip, a body suspended on canvas, a blink looped endlessly in animation.

Buglione’s work resists resolution. It dwells in fracture, in vulnerability, in the moments we turn away from. What remains is raw and undeniable: a record of intimacy at its most uncertain, and therefore its most real.

Katherine Buglione captures the tension between what flickers and what endures. Her figures bend and hesitate, their faces caught between tenderness and collapse—unguarded moments that resist concealment. Through paint, pen, and moving image, she holds presence at its most fragile, preserving gestures that might otherwise vanish.

In the Guest Checks series, quick portraits on restaurant slips transform the disposable into testimony. Her animations stretch a blink, a tremor, a breath—turning the smallest motions into enduring loops of vulnerability. Each work hovers between clarity and ambiguity, control and release.

Buglione’s practice resists resolution. It dwells in fracture, asking us not to look away but to linger in discomfort, where intimacy and estrangement meet. In her hands, the ordinary carries resonance, and the unfinished reveals its own truth.

Katherine Buglione’s paintings confront the fragile intersections of intimacy and estrangement, with others and with ourselves.