The Leaves Are Changing And So Are We” — An Evening With Artist Kait Steward
Tonight, Remnant Framing hosts the gallery reception for Kait Steward and her exhibition,
“The Leaves Are Changing And So Are We.”
Though the collection is made up of mostly existing work, it feels anything but static. Kait works in layers of memory and color, of photographic reference, of hindsight. And those layers behave differently each time you stand in front of them. Her paintings hold the same quality as a memory.
In the new podcast episode we released last week, Kait sits down with Christina Wegman for an honest, generous conversation about where this work comes from. There’s a moment early in the recording where Christina talks about the delight of watching Kait’s process: the way a photograph becomes a sketch, becomes a digital edit, becomes a painting, becomes something with emotional weight. Kait talks about the “gift of time,” about grad school forcing her to slow down long enough to figure out not just what she wanted to make, but what she wanted to look for.
Later in the conversation, Kait shares something that feels central to understanding this exhibition. She talks about losing a close friend in 2021, and how grief pushed her to reconsider the value of photographs, objects, and color. She started thinking about hindsight and how memories change when new information enters your life. How the past is never really fixed. How a photo can be brightened, deepened, tinted, sharpened, obscured, or made suddenly tender depending on where you’re standing now.
You can see that thinking all over the work in this show.
Colors shift in ways that feel emotional, Images overlap, and yet beneath it all, there’s a grounding softness.
Another thread that runs through the podcast is her love for community at Lowe Mill. She talks about the tiny conveniences of grabbing pencils at Huntsville Art Supplies, wandering a few doors down for an opinion, losing track of time in someone else’s studio. But more than that, she talks about the kind of creative presence this place allows:
“Half the joy is going down the hall… go visit, go talk, go chat.”
This is a moment to stand with Kait’s paintings and see what they’re asking now, in this season, under this lighting, surrounded by the voices of the building that has become her creative home.
Join us tonight, Friday 11/14 from 6–8pm, in Railroad Room 3B.
Come meet Kait, experience the work, and be part of the ongoing story of this exhibition, one shaped as much by reflection and memory as by the colors on the canvas.
See you tonight.