Painter and sculptor Katie Crown juggles color and composition across a range of themes -- figurative, landscape, non-objective. Her current work blends painting and sculpture into large cartoons mounted on the wall. "Art should be fun," she declares. Rhythms, patterns and harmonies in many of her paintings and sculptures connect to her passion for music. Many of her figurative paintings and sculptures mix cartoon styling with a noir mood: people in group settings with a sense of alienation.

The Hilbert Museum of California Art featured a Crown painting in a major 2025 show, "California's Golden Coast," and has added her paintings to the museum's permanent collection.  Viewers have previously seen her art exhibited in many museums and galleries nationwide, including the Tucson Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, National Arts Club in New York, Memorial Arts Center in Atlanta, Palm Springs Art Museum, Riverside Art Museum, Sioux City Art Center, Laguna Art Museum, Oceanside Museum of Art, Springfield (Mo.) Art Museum, and the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa.

A Los Angeles native, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University. She also studied at the University of Southern California and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In early years of her career, landscapes of the Midwest and Southwest inspired shapes and colors in her abstract watercolor paintings. She continues to use watercolor at times for landscape, figurative and non-objective paintings while exploring further into oil painting and sculpture, especially for figurative themes.

More information about her newest series and about other themes in her work is in other sections of this website.