Kat Ryals

Only a few days away!!! Thank you so much @sarahecascone for the inclusion in the fall round up on @artnet 🤩🤩🤩 What a huge honor to be included amongst this list of shows to see! Mark your calendars for 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟲𝘁𝗵, 𝟱-𝟴𝗽𝗺 to join us for the opening of my first solo exhibition, curated by @artfreaky_ at @550gallery in Long Island City It’s an easy stop over from @thearmoryshow on the 7 train 🚂 so please add to your art week schedule ✨ 🗓️ ✨ Find the full list in the link 🔗 in my bio Can’t wait to see you Saturday 👀 👋

Oh my I could not be more thrilled to announce my FIRST solo exhibition at a NYC gallery is on the horizon 🌅 Please save the date 🗓️ for Saturday September 6th, 5-8pm for my exhibition opening @550gallery 🥂 𝓢𝓱𝓸𝔀𝓻𝓸𝓸𝓶 𝓓𝔂𝓷𝓪𝓼𝓽𝔂 is the culmination of a body of work, photographic rug prints of hand built collages, I’ve been working on since 2021, and I’m delighted to present 10 new pieces in this exhibition. This series is an investigation of perceived value by blending luxury and kitsch aesthetics, referencing both historic and contemporary Western design. Embedded into the opulent designs are items perceived as low value - materials that are discarded & recycled, cheap, artificial or dead. Their imagery references places of desire where busy carpets exist - conference centers for trade shows, elaborate palaces from a bygone era, perhaps the casino floor - spaces designed to keep consumers hopelessly spending under the illusion of attaining or becoming something more. HUGE thanks to the team at @550gallery , my long time project collaborator @artfreaky_ who will be curating the show, @vmarpetty for her incredible PR work, and to @orville.shrek friends and fam who have been wonderfully supportive of my work through the years 🙏 Mark your calendars and I’ll see you in Queens in September!

Well good morning and TGIF ✨ I am beyond thrilled 🤩 to be included in this month’s @nytimes round up of what to see in NYC! (And the show is not even in NYC so take note 😁) Huge huge thanks to @sephsees for including us in his contribution. It’s truly an honor and a privilege to be selected for this magnificent lineup! There’s a lot of incredible shows in NY to choose from and we deeply appreciate you coming to the show, sharing your time and expertise with us, and for giving recognition to our work with a such a wonderful feature ☺️ And of course continued thanks and praise 🙌🏼 to my art partner @mister_caitlin , the unstoppable duo that is @elijah_wheat_showroom , and @carasheffler , who was our match-made-in-the-afterlife wall text wordsmith, for all the hard work they have put into this show. It very clearly shows! So if you haven’t made your plans to visit this endearing Hudson River town, now’s a great time to visit according to the NYT 😉

🖼️🎙️ EPISODE HIGHLIGHT 🖼️🎙️ Revisiting a past conversation In this episode, I sit down with @kitsch_witch at @550gallery , curated by @artfreaky_ For inquiries, reach out to @550gallery Originally recorded during a previous visit, this conversation with Kat Ryals is one I keep coming back to. Her work moves between photography, installation, and cultural storytelling, rooted in her Southern upbringing and shaped by a sharp, contemporary lens. We spoke about how identity, memory, and visual culture intersect in her practice, from Catholic iconography to thrift store Americana, and how those references evolve into something both intimate and expansive. Kat also shares insight into her path from SCAD to Brooklyn College, her experience across residencies like Wassaic Project and Vermont Studio Center, and how she balances being both an artist and curator within New York’s art ecosystem. This episode captures a moment in her journey that still feels incredibly relevant, especially as her work continues to grow and reach new audiences. 🎧 Download today, link in bio Available on all streaming platforms Watch on YouTube and Instagram, listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more #tariktalk #tariktalkpodcast #art #artist #contemporaryart

Thrilled to be in this bold, fuzzy exhibition exploring textile based art curated by the wonderfully thoughtful @hayleyferber I am so bummed I missed the opening but I can’t wait to see the show IRL next weekend and give a talk alongside some of the other artists in the show! 🗓️ Mark your cal for Saturday 04/04, 2-4pm for our artist talks and Sunday 04/19, 5-7pm for a closing reception 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒔 brings together 15 artists working across diverse textile processes— sewing, quilting, weaving, and sculptural assemblage among others—to explore connection as both material structure and social metaphor. Now on view @bronxartspace  700 Manida St, Bronx, NY 10474, entrance on Spofford

This weekend is the last chance to see LaThoriel Badenhausen’s solo exhibition HER/STORY, curated by Kat Ryals. Join us for an artist talk and closing this Sunday, March 29, 3-5 pm. Gallery hours are Friday-Sunday, 1-7pm. 📍All Street Gallery (77 East Third Street, New York, NY 10003)

Here I am with my future self 👀 If you haven’t been to see @lathorielbadenhausen dazzling solo exhibition @all.st.nyc , now is the time! As curator of this special show (the artist’s NYC solo debut), I can attest that there is a vibrant potency in every hand sewn stitch and brushstroke in the works on view - sure to tickle your curiosity ✨ LaThoriel is a force who worked multiple manual labor and non-art jobs until she was able to focus solely on her artistic practice later in life. At 85, she is tremendously dedicated, creating almost all new pieces or reinterpreting past works for this exhibition. Her work is charming and irreverent, using playfulness, bold color, and gendered reclaimed materials to discuss social issues while also joyfully indulging in her own imagination. 𝗛𝗘𝗥/𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 is on view for one more weekend! Stop into the 77 East 3rd location of All Street 𝗙𝗿𝗶 - 𝗦𝘂𝗻, 𝟭-𝟳𝗽𝗺. Plus, you are invited to join us 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟵𝘁𝗵, 𝟯-𝟱𝗽𝗺 for a closing reception and artist talk at the gallery. Definitely not one to miss! 💌 Wear something fabulous and we’ll see ya Sunday 💃

Happy happy birthday to the one and only @lathorielbadenhausen (March 15th) 🎂 🎁 🎉 Did you miss the opening of her solo show, 𝑯𝑬𝑹/𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑹𝒀, curated by moi? If so, the exhibition is on view this weekend and next Friday - Sunday, 1-7pm at All Street Gallery @all.st.nyc (77 East 3rd location) and also by appointment. Save the date 🗓️ for a closing reception and artist talk on Sunday March 29th, 3-5pm. You don’t want to miss your chance to see LaThoriel and her incredible meticulously handcrafted artwork! 🪡 🖐️

HER/STORY, a solo exhibition by LaThoriel Badenhausen (@lathorielbadenhausen ) curated by Kat Ryals (@kitsch_witch ) is on view through March 29 at All Street Gallery’s East Village location (77 East Third Street, New York, NY 10003). Acting as a visual poet, LaThoriel Badenhausen intertwines disparate objects and their accumulated biographies, foregrounding the layered histories embedded in everyday materials. These tactile, kaleidoscopic works invite viewers to consider not only the arc of the self-taught 85 year old artist’s life, but the evolving lives of the objects she reclaims. In a moment marked by overproduction, environmental precarity, and renewed struggles around women’s autonomy, visibility, and labor, HER/STORY reminds us that value is never fixed. It can be dismantled, reimagined, and made anew. Hope emerges through transformation: when an object’s assigned function is stripped away, it gains the possibility of another life—and another story to tell.

Thank you for joining us for the opening reception of HER/STORY, a solo exhibition of work by mixed-media artist LaThoriel Badenhausen (@lathorielbadenhausen ), curated by Kat Ryals (@kitsch_witch ). The exhibition is on view during Women’s History Month from March 5 through March 29, 2026, at All Street Gallery’s East Village location (77 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10003), and marks the 85-year-old artist’s debut solo presentation in New York City. While inherently playful, the works offer incisive critique of consumer culture, environmental degradation, and entrenched class and gender hierarchies. Central to Badenhausen’s practice is the understanding that objects are not passive commodities but carriers of social biography. Made by human hands or machines, they move between private, commercial, and public spheres, accumulating meaning as they shift roles. Their value is not determined by the market alone but shaped by touch, memory, labor, use, and, as proven by Badenhausen, imagination.

#InteriorLandscapes, in association with @paradicepalase is now open at @couperruss . #KatRyals @kitsch_witch 'Pattern Integrity', 2025, #Photograph of #collage printed on #velvet rug, 35 ½" × 25 ½" Available to purchase. Please DM for an artwork list PDF. Interior Landscapes brings together 10 US-based visual artists exploring the entanglement of inner and outer worlds—how anxiety, grief, desire, and resilience take shape through the body, the home, and the natural environment. A collaborative curation between #CouperRuss and #PARADICEPALASE, the selected works vary in material and scale, with processes ranging from #photography, #collage, #textiles and #embroidery, and #mixedmedia #painting. In times of external turmoil or internal grief, humans instinctively seek comfort through nature, their domiciles, and creative output. The artists in Interior Landscapes reflect on the home as both refuge and enclosure: a space that shields, nurtures, and holds us, but also isolates and amplifies the ouroboros of anxiety and comfort. In a post-pandemic world, domestic space has reasserted itself as a site of retreat—where we bring the outside in, while also closing ourselves off from what feels uncertain beyond the walls. Artists include Sammy Bennett @sammy_bennett1 (Brooklyn, NY), Haide Calle @conternura_lv (Las Vegas, NV), Katie Commodore @katiecommodore (Providence, RI), Kevin Dudley @yeah_sure_why_not (Brooklyn, NY), Julie Henson @reidhenson (Los Angeles, CA), Hue @desert_hue (Las Vegas, NV), Holly Lay @hollographic (Las Vegas, NV), Caitlin McCormack @mister_caitlin (Philadelphia, PA), JK Russ @jkrusscollage (Las Vegas, NV), and Kat Ryals @kitsch_witch (Brooklyn, NY). The exhibition runs until 22nd March 2026. Please contact the gallery to make an appointment to view the exhibition.

Emerging from the snow sludge to announce a cherished project I’ve been happily toiling away on 💖 I’m thrilled to be curating 𝑯𝑬𝑹/𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑹𝒀, a solo exhibition by mixed-media artist LaThoriel Badenhausen @lathorielbadenhausen that uses painting, assemblage sculpture, and textiles to reshape overlooked materials into stories about memory, worthiness, and labor. The exhibition opens next 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟱𝘁𝗵, 𝟲-𝟴𝗽𝗺 @all.st.nyc (77 E. 3rd location) 🗓️ At 85 years old, this will be LaThoriel’s solo debut in NYC, just in time for Women’s History Month 💅 Please come to the opening and congratulate her on her long overdue one-woman show 🎉 🖼️ image: LaThoriel Badenhausen, 𝘏𝘌𝘙, 2026, textile assemblage, 28 x 52 x 2.5 inches