MK is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Pittsburgh, PA. She holds a BFA with focuses in Painting and Ceramics from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Her work is focused on surreal, figurative based narratives - often using mixed media. Noonan is also a musician, filmmaker and amateur seamstress. MK co-founded MadKat Studios in 2021 where she holds her multi-media studio practice. She works as an Administrative Specialist and Video Producer at Carnegie Mellon University in HCII. In the fall of 2021 she completed a residency at Fish Factory Creative Center in Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland. Her work has been shown regionally, internationally and is in private collected across the United States and internationally.
I approach my work through the lens of reincarnation, seeing every living being and material element as part of a cyclical, karmic continuum. This perspective shapes my imagery, which draws on mysticism and divine intervention to reveal the unseen within the commonplace. My practice investigates belonging, chaos, and longing in the spaces we inhabit—both natural and constructed.
Color, shadow, movement, and composition guide my process as I merge observation with imagination. Storytelling is at the heart of my work. Repurposing folklore and theological narratives, I aim to deconstruct these inherited myths—once sacred—in order to question taboos and ancestral patterns.
