Karis Kizito-Mcparland

[Karis Kizito-Mcparland](https://kariskizitomcparland.org/) aka Upton Human Geometry Karis Upton speaks about drawing as if it were a biological function, something she has always done, something she never had to learn to want. Painting came later, almost by accident, as a way of discovering what her lifelong lines would become when given color, density, and scale. But the core of her practice remains the same: shapes, angles, bodies arranged not for likeness but for the geometry they reveal. She constructs figures entirely from imagination, placing them on the canvas like coordinates in tension, circles, diagonals, gestures that hover between support and collapse. Her influences range from Magritte’s surreal interior world to the fierce self-examination of Kahlo and Paula Rego, but what she is really chasing is the geometry inside human relation: how bodies lean toward or away from one another, how connection twists, lifts, binds, or strains. Her current work, three gold figures on