Kate Beebe DeVarney
Kate moves between two practices — clinical neuroscience and the studio — letting each inform the other.
Raised in a multigenerational hive of women artists, Kate Beebe DeVarney has been making art for as long as she can remember. Her practice is rooted in curiosity.
DeVarney's work is uniquely informed by her background as both a fine artist and a clinical neuroscientist. This duality allows her to move fluidly between intuition and nuanced observation, creating work at the intersection of feeling and form.
How color speaks, how texture holds emotion, how visual memory settles into the body.
Her perspective is further deepened by her journey as a breast cancer survivor and her practice as a Qigong teacher. These experiences inform her exploration of "unseen internal landscapes" — the energetic and emotional topographies that shape human resilience. Through her layered mixed-media pieces, she investigates translucence and resonance, seeking to visualize the vital energy that connects us all.
A dedicated member of the ICB artist community, Kate creates and teaches primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and abroad. Her current body of work, including the Visual Haiku series, reflects her fascination with the intersections of science and imagination.
She credits her artistic development to the mentorship of Ellen Blakeley, Bonnie Minardi, Karen Meadows, Margot Hartford, Bibby Gignilliat, and Gordon Studer.