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1-3. For She is Time, 2006, artist’s book withscreenprinting, woodcut, and letterpress,
11” x 10-1/2” each page
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Artist Statement
The book For She is Time has its origins in a large-scale fiber installation. The narrative text was written as an accompaniment to the piece, providing an account of the mythical creation of the knitted form. To the rhythm of this textual score, For She is Time introduces a world of cause, effect, and disappearance. Inside of the book there rests a land where the forces of nature shape reality and human presence is seated among the things of the world - and not above them.
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Debtors Photographs
1. Debtors I, tryptich, 2006, c-print, 4” x 4” each
2. Debtors II, tryptich, 2006, c-print, 4” x 4” each
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Debtor’s Inheritance
1-8. Debtor’s Inheritance, 2007, site-specific installation with gourds
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
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Artist Statement
Debtor’s Inheritance is site-specific and interactive installation that was created as part of Green Machine, a multi-media based exhibition on the grounds of the Schuylkill Center, in Philadelphia. As visitors explore the grounds of the Center they encounter a series of stations demarcated by manipulated gourds. At each station the gourds prompt participants to send and receive short text-messages, which layer local history and ecology with residual dialogue from contributors to the project. Participants can selectively piece together this non-linear, and mysterious narrative to create a portrait of the Center as a living site that embodies the struggle between progress and preservation.
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A Journey: Upwards and Down Again
1-4. A Journey: Upwards and Down Again, 2004, string installed in
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By the time you arrive, it has frozen
1-4. By the time you arrive, it has frozen, 2005, knitting and paper,
16’ x 8’ x 20’
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2005 Drawing Series
1. Aerial, 2005, graphite and collage, 8-1/2” x 6-1/2”
2. Count, 2005, collage, 7” x 6”
3. The Defeat, 2005, graphite, collage, and watercolor, 7-1/2” x 10”
4. Duchess, 2005, ink and collage, 7-1/2” x 9”
5. Grotto, 2005, graphite, collage, and watercolor,4-1/2” x 6-1/2”
6. Logger, 2005, graphite and collage, 7-1/2” x 10”
7. Osmosis, 2005, pen, collage, and watercolor, 7-1/2” x 10”
8. Throne, 2005, collage and watercolor, 7-1/2” x 10”
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Artist Statement
Knowing that nature will prevail, I observe it. The universe whirls about me and it is a pleasure to discover myself included, to know that I may tinker with the immensity of it all. As human beings we exert ourselves in ever-greater influence on our environment, and I like to think of art-making as a more gentle form of intervention.
I am interested in creating spaces where art and experience intersect. Whether these spaces take the form of inhabitable installations, book structures or images, I am interested in constructing artificial landscapes that are rooted in particular encounters and histories. My background in printmaking has been distilled into an interest in the multiple as a form of accumulation that allows me to explore my relationship to place and the haunting qualities of memory. I repeatedly combine objects and images with text to tell stories that layer my experience in the world with my imagining of it. There is a mythic quality to my written narratives, which avoid resolution to allow for an authentic inquiry into the meaning of the work. |
| Education
2005
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
MFA, Book Arts/Printmaking
2002
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
BFA, Printmaking
with Honors in the Visual Arts
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Awards and Honors
2007
The Jack and Evelyn Miller Cash Award, The 39th Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton TX
The Connoisseur Brush Award, The 39th Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton TX
2005
The Elizabeth C. Robert’s Prize for Graduate Study, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2004
The Harry Eaby/ Piccari Press Scholarship, The University of The Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2002
Thesis Research Grant, The Schreyer Honors College, Penn State University, University Park, PA
2001
Schreyer Ambassador Award for study abroad in Florence, Italy, Schreyer Honors College, Penn State, University Park, PA
College Award for Creative Achievement, College of Arts and Architecture, Penn State, University Park, PA
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Residencies
2003
Artist in Residence, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italia
Four week printmaking residency for independent studio work
2001
Color Woodcut Printmaking, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
Instructed by Karen Kunc, Professor of Art at The University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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Lectures and Talks
2007
Presenter,
Action/Interaction: Book/Arts Conference "Contemporary Artists and the Book", Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
2001
Presenter, National Conference for Undergraduate Research "Investigations: Recent Prints of Rural America", The University of Kentucky, Lexington KY
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Publications
2007
Murken, Katie, Lindsey Mears, and Katie Baldwin. “Contemporary Artists and the Book.” JAB: The Journal of Artist’s Books,
Fall, 2007
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| Bibliography
2007
Kirsch, Andrea, "Greenmachine: Art, Technology and Nature", artblog, May 18, 2007
"Katie Murken, Green Machine - video", Romanblog
Quicktime version
YouTube version
2004
Rosof, Libby, "Bound/Unbound", artblog, June 08, 2006
2002
Naydan, Liliana M., "Home is Where the Art Is” Research, Penn State. 23:3 |
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| Selected Exhibitions
2007
greenmachine, InLiquid at The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
National Juried Visual Arts Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, The Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton TX
2006
Crafts, Art, Design Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, Carol Bieber and Marc Ham Gallery, The Delaware Center for The Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Benjamin Franklin: An American Idol, Nexus Foundation for today’s art, Philadelphia, PA
Bound/Unbound, West Gallery, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Annual Juried Show, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2005
New Work by Past Artists: 1984-2005, Art In City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
By the time you arrive…: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA
Artists' Books from Philadelphia and Timisoara, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA and Library Humanitas Joc Secund, Timisoara, Romania
Book Arts from UArts: Selections from The University of the Arts MFA Program in Book Arts/ Printmaking 1989-2002, Kamin Gallery, The University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia, PA
Projet Mobilivre, Traveling Exhibition
Art Full Text, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Turning Pages: New Student Work from The University of the Arts, The Wardman Library at Whittier College, Whittier, CA
2004
Pop Group Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Juried Exhibition
2003
77th Annual International Printmaking Competition, The Print Center; Philadelphia, PA
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