Katherine Hunt
Taos, NM
Permutation 4
Canvas, fiber, graphite, acrylic
36” x 36” x 2”
2020
Price on request
About
Katherine attended the University of Minnesota for her BFA in Indigenous American Studies, studying under the mentorship of Anishinaabe Activist/ Educator Winona LaDuke, double minoring in Women’s Studies and Cultural Psychology. She received her MFA from California Institute of Arts, studying Curatorial Studies at La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France. Following graduation in Los Angeles, Katherine worked in the Art Department on music videos, feature films and television shows creating original art props and set design.
In 2020, Katherine was selected as a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts/Fulcrum Fund Grant as well as a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency COVID-19 Fund Grant. Alongside art-making, Katherine has created numerous sustainable urban gardens in New York and Los Angeles for schools, businesses and estates, as well as worked on rural farms across the United States. In 2018, she worked alongside Moving Arts Española to create a weaving installation and heirloom garden on Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo lands. Having taught Studio Art workshops at the Detroit Institute of Arts, she is currently located in Taos, New Mexico.
Artist Statement
Working with natural fibers such as string, twine and rope coated in adhesives of resin, glue and acrylic and embedded onto canvas, I create process-oriented art that molds soft materials into intricately controlled geometric forms. Drawing with thread and existing in both two and three dimensional space, I animate both the expressive and conceptual potential of line. Using fiber, my work adds a different tactile material to the language of drawing and painting, lifting line from its conventional two dimensional plane to create large mixed media works. Paul Klee described drawing as “taking a line for a walk”. By disciplining myself to use one continuous thread, I take the fiber line for a walk and am required to listen to the imprecise nature of the material, welcome the unexpected potential for error that comes from working with unruly material and create new pathways. I like to think that preserving the line’s course is a means of visual recordkeeping of my thought processes, decisions and actions. I am leaving my mark, literally and figuratively. In constructing abstract monochromatic pieces, I invite viewers to engage with their own subjectivity, make personal associations and sit with ambiguity and imperfection.
Art from Katherine Hunt in other TAAC exhibitions