Kayla Koeune of Inferno Art Studio

  2015 Steel Horse Sisterhood Women's Motorcycle Summit The summit is a gathering of smart, motivated, kind women who believe that when one succeeds, all benefit and that the sharing of our secrets to our success matters. A room full of women encouraging and supporting one another is a powerful thing!                                               THE FACE OF A SISTER  is an art show within the summit featuring a series of paintings created specifically for this show. The eight original oil paintings featured are portraits of women of all ages and riding styles. These women found their freedom and independence on the open road and are being acknowledged for it. Not only is the art on display but I will also be putting on a live painting show for the duration of the event. I will be doing speed painting, portrait painting and smal...

The History Corner bars, tattoo parlors, motorcycle exhaust, and the greased up bolt of her M4 provide the elements that tend to drive the passionate work behind Kayla Koeune’s artistic creations. Koeune grew up in small-town Wisconsin where she found a love for art at a very young age. And like most of Wisconsin youth, she spent much of hers in taverns; only she was busy drawing the bar flies from a fort she’d construct out of stools. Her passion to create never ceasing, Koeune decided to expand her knowledge and attended the Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts where she earned her BA in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History. She gravitated toward the challenge of the nude human form and capturing the raw emotion of everyday life. Following college, she did what a lot of kids with degrees in Art did…joined the Wisconsin Army National Guard.  Almost immediately after training, she deployed to Baghdad, Iraq, where she developed new connections and friendships that s...

By  Maureen Mulhern , Caggio Blog Contributor February 2011 • Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
 This show is sponsored by BelAir Cantina This week I visited the studio of Kayla Koeune, Caggio's featured artist for February/March. Her show opens today (February 18th - March 20th). I chatted with the emerging artist and UW-Milwaukee graduate, interested to learn more about her emotive figurative representations; unedited, richly painted and intimate. In this very personal series of paintings, Koeune explores ideas of self and relationships-- merging memories and keen observation-- focusing on the dark, passionate, and compelling side of raw emotion. In addition, she investigates the classical origins of figure drawing and portraiture, applying a contemporary interpretation. Lastly, Koeune challenges perception with an unorthodox and multifaceted point of view.For Koeune, drawing and painting the human figure has been a lifetime pursuit. What is key for the art...