ABOUT

Kristine Overacre’s work explores perception, pattern, and the subtle ways meaning accumulates over time. Built through thousands of individual marks, her paintings consider how disparate elements form a connected whole—how intimacy and expansiveness can exist within a single surface.

Her practice draws on a contemporary approach to pointillism, rooted in observation, intuition, and sustained attention. Many works are created in extended states of focus, allowing memory, place, and sensation to guide the process. The natural world remains a constant reference, shaping both palette and structure.

Central to her work is an interest in hidden layers—details and narratives that reveal themselves gradually, through looking. Experienced up close, each mark maintains its individuality; from a distance, these elements resolve into a unified field. This shifting perspective creates a quiet sense of movement, inviting a slower, more attentive way of seeing.

Her paintings often hold tension between apparent opposites: light and darkness, order and imperfection, the personal and the infinite. Underlying the work is a curiosity about scale and multiplicity—how meaning can feel both expansive and fleeting, depending on where one stands.