ABOUT
Born August 6, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Based in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Southern California

Kristine Overacre is a visual artist living and working between San Juan, Puerto Rico and Southern California. Her paintings reflect the intricate and colorful way she experiences the world—often translating the people, places, and moments that move her most. Best known for her contemporary approach to pointillism, Kristine documents moments in time through thousands of individual marks that reveal how many disparate parts can form a connected whole.

Her practice is deeply shaped by long-held contemplative disciplines and a grounded spiritual life. Many of her works are created in a naturally induced, meditative flow state, allowing intuition, memory, and meaning to guide her hand. The natural world remains a constant source of inspiration, offering both color and metaphor.

A central theme in Kristine’s work is the exploration of hidden layers—symbolic details and subtle narratives that reveal themselves only upon closer attention. She is interested in the idea of surface and the belief that beauty often holds more depth than what initially meets the eye. Each piece is created as an act of love on paper, frequently rooted in a personal narrative or dedicated to someone who shaped its story. This quiet storytelling forms the metaphysical undercurrent of her work, reflecting the intention present from conception to completion.

Kristine’s practice sits at the intersection of the plainly visible and the quietly obscured. Through the language of dots, she examines humanity’s place in the universe—both as individuals and as part of a greater collective. Her paintings are meant to be experienced at multiple distances, inviting viewers to shift perspective. What appears as minute detail up close transforms into a unified whole from afar, creating the sense of living vibration within each piece.

For Kristine, this tension of opposites—light and darkness, the perfect and imperfect, the tiny and the infinite—reveals a deeper truth: two seemingly opposing realities can coexist. Everything can matter, and nothing can matter, all at once. She embraces the imperfect, believing that there is no larger picture without the sum of its parts. In this way, her work mirrors the human experience—formed by what we have lived, yet shaped by how we choose to integrate it into a meaningful, cohesive whole.

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