Nina Katz is an emerging artist, living and working in Berkeley, California. She has studied at the Art Students League of New York, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the California College of Art. Nina is a runner up in the 2008 Reflect-Arts: Women's History Month: Relics and Remembrances art competition. She was also a winner in the 2006-2007 Berkeley Civic Center Art Exhibition, and has exhibited her work in the San Francisco Bay Area and is in private collections in California and New York. Her recent work incorporates the use of anonymous black and white photographs from the early 20th century as subjects for her paintings. She is inspired by the self-assurance captured momentary to the snap of the camera, contradicting the position of women during that era. For a brief instant these women are liberated from societal restraint and represent the nascent spark of emancipation. Her choice of palette incorporates pastels and grays to replicate the old and faded of found photographs, while the small scale and consistency in size are reminders that these are snapshots.