ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a multidisciplinary artist, art therapist, and educator. My work is heavily inspired by my practice in art therapy, in which I focus on mental health, equality, and the body autonomy of women. Mythology, historical tropes, hidden images, and religion are woven into my sculptures and drawings, which function to create a multidimensional critique of cultural expectations and suppression of women’s bodies, ideas, and emotions. This series of ceramic wall sketches was created in clay as a record of somatic expressions of emotions held in the body when the voice is no longer adequate.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Katie Croft is multi-disciplinary artist, art therapist, and educator. She is a painter, drawer, and ceramic sculptor. Her current work is focused on the intersection of art and healing and embodied experiences of the creative process. This work began in response to COVID-19 and the impact it had on mental health of her community. She graduated from Pratt with her MFA in 2020 and her MPS in 2023. Katie actively exhibits her work. Most recently her work has been featured in Drawing into Sculpture, LICAA, The Factory in Long Island: Whose Story Is It?, Spilt Milk Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland; Site:Brooklyn, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Winston Wachter Fine Art in Revisited 2021, Platform 2020, and SuperDutchess Gallery, NY. She’s been featured in numerous publications including the 2020 New American Paintings, No. 147, MFA Annual Issue and the inaugural issue of AllSheMakes contemporary art and culture magazine curated by ArtGirlRising. She was a 2022 finalist for Subject Matter, RePaint History, Art Girl Rising, Winter Prize, London, UK. She was awarded a long term residency in ceramics at Odyssey Clayworks, Asheville, NC in 2021 and she teaches at Morbid Anatomy Library in Brooklyn, NY.
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