Katie Korotzer

Abstract Painter and Art Writer

Katie Korotzer is a painter and art writer living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her non-representational paintings use gestural mark-making, the language of color, and the interaction of shape, texture and negative space to express movement and emotion.

Artist’s Statement

In my work I seek to uncover the personal, family and historical structures that have benefited and limited me. I grew up in the American South but have lived in California since 1989. I’ve always struggled to reconcile the difference geographically, psychologically and spiritually between my home state of Georgia and my adopted state of California. I seek to understand the way the world offers us so much duality. The fact that two things can be true at the same time can be very difficult to accept. The circular form showing up in so much of my work is a helpful metaphor for exploring this idea: Enclosure/Entrapment; Inclusion/Exclusion; Hold/Release; Delicacy/Strength/Conscious Awareness/Unconscious Acceptance; Conflict/Comfort. Accepting the existence of duality allows me to connect and be in relationship with others. The circle contains everything I’ve experienced whether rejected or accepted, and symbolizes the fact that all these things have impacted me.