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INLAND EMPIRE
- MAGAZINE
Colton's Kat
Trevino won her first art award - a poster for the Reading
is fundamental campaign - when she was 7. It was a unicorn
over rainbow clouds and the slogan read, "Find your Fantasy..Read."
Kat, now 31, has
stayed with that theme, creating fantasy worlds in her art.
"I try to capture what's in people's minds and their
imaginations that you couldn't otherwise picture," she
says.
Kat does this
in a variety of mediums. She's a painter, photographer, graphic
artist, poet, sculptor, and has even done glass blowing. She
wins at least 2 awards a year and takes classes to keep up
with the trends in art. "Next, I have to make short films,"
she sighs. And she writes too, her first novel, 'When Darkness
Falls', is a Vampire fable that is expected to be out soon.
Kat painted the "Butterfly Sky" mural on the Hollywood
101 FWY. She started the project 3 years ago and although
it looks finished, she says it isn't. "I was working
about 4' from traffic: it was bizarre. We were on a scaffold,
about 20' up - I have to get the nerve to get back up there
and finish the sky," she says.
Kat has a day
job as a Graphic Director with the Cyber Group Network in
San Bernardino. She also has her own Graphic illustration
business - KATTWORKS.
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THE SUN
- NEWSPAPER
Kat
Trevino, who previously had shown her work to a limited
audience, now has millions admiring her work in Hollywood,
today Trevino's artwork decorates Highway 101. "The
main thing for me right now is to get my work in front of
as many people as possible," says Kat, who is running
her own design studio, KATTWORKS. All of it revolves art,
in addition to creating visuals she also is a writer, with
3 anthologies and a novel in process. She has been plumbing
her creative side for as long as she can remember, for fun
and profit. "I was drawing before I was walking,"
she says.
She did her first mural in Middle school in her first
roll of art director, the lead in her art class group designated
to adorn the school's walls. She graduated high school having
taken all the art classes available, written up in her year
book as a blooming writer/artist. She immediately went to
a design college graduating in the top of her class.
Kat has been
feeding her muse in exhibits with painting and sculpture
in museums and galleries. Reluctant to describe her style,
she uses words like, "futurist" and "dark",
exclaiming, "People like the strangest things and I'm
happy to create it." Her sculptures include a version
of the Electric Chair and a bullet filled head called, WAR
HEAD. Her one dimensional work lean toward the surreal and
ethereal.
Kat's 'dark'
side, she admits has given way to vibrant color, experimenting
with different styles. Not a fan of realism in her work,
she explains, "I see art as something you have in your
mind's eye that you transform to the outer world. It should
take people to different realms, open their mind to what
before was just void."
Gregg Patton
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LOOKING
THROUGH
ROSE
COLORED GLASSES
Photo
by: Michael Leone
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THE ARROWHEAD
NEWS
Commuters stuck
in a traffic jam on their way to L.A. are treated to a pleasant
sight as they complete their transition form Interstate 10
to the 101 FWY.
With downtown's
enormous buildings as a backdrop, freeway wall are painted
with a series of murals as part of a Beautification of L.A.
program administered by the California Department of Transportation.
Among those murals,
there is one not so large but very special indeed. It depicts
a pair of glasses in the big blue sky, Inside the frames are
butterflies, clouds and a pretty woman's face (Kat's). This
12 X 20' mural was painted by Kat Trevino, a 28 year old art
major at S.B. Valley College. "I think it's a great way
to reach millions of people to share my art with."
In addition to
the obvious problems presented with painting a mural, Trevino
laced precise equipment, worked in temperatures well over
100s, and was not paid. "Its just sweat, tears, and a
lot of effort," Trevino said. Though she originally called
her mural 'Rose Colored Glasses', she prefers not to name
her work, because, "It means many things to many people,
I didn't want to limit my viewers, art is so subjective."
In Trevino's art
world, everything is unlimited, just like her imagination.
"Art is what
is in my head, my self expression. It has something to do
with feelings, emotions, imaginations that come to me."
Kat Trevino has
started her own business too. Aside from painting, she works
on her poetry and is researching for her book, 'When Darkness
Falls', a Vampire story.
Butterflies, colorful
backgrounds and flowers - those kind of atmospheres - are
not always represented in Trevino's art work. Some of it tends
to be dark and negative, just like her favorite color: black.
"I think
life is painful," she says, "Art makes people feel
better: to relate the pain we all suffer in life."
Kat is happy with
her family, made up of her child hood sweetheart, now husband
and her cats. As an artist, Trevino said that she sees art
as her children and she wants to dedicate her entire life
to it.
Pang-Ling
Chang
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HER
LIFE
IS HER
ART
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IONA - MAGAZINE
Kat Trevino
a graphic artist from Southern California is making a name
for herself through her art exhibitions, and you won't want
to miss her latest creations! They will definitely blow
you away. Kat Trevino knew from the early age of 7 after
winning her first art award, that Art was her calling. After
graduating she immediately starting attending a Design College,
and started making a living doing what she loved. She sits
on the board of directors for The Fine Arts Institute, member
of the County Museum, Riverside Art Museum and the Pomona
Artist's Colony. Kat takes her photography and alters it
into a fantasy like realm through computer manipulation.
Making them into what she sometimes refers to as Dreamscapes,
and people can't seem to get enough of it. The initial road
to success was tough, for people had not heard or even seen
such pieces, many Museums and Galleries wanted more traditional
work. What makes Kat's art special and different? Unlike
other art work where you see is what you get. Kat says,
"the fact that my art work is new and objective and it's
left up to the viewer to determine the image's meaning."
Like her slogan, "Where Your Only limit is Your Imagination".
Iona Cunningham
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