Katie Korotzer is a studio artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who uses painting, drawing, sound, glass and scent in an ongoing exploration of the overlapping boundaries between the human, the non-human, minerals, and technology.
My work uses sound and smell in addition to visual art in order to link the experience of the individual to the collective systems and rhythms of the larger world. Birth, growth, expansion and decay are transformative and constant events of animal, mineral non-human and human ecologies which carry on regardless of human political and social constructions. I look for the places where the borders between these systems collapse as a way to connect. My work is an offering, a suggestion, of how these systems are interrelated, and how we as individuals and as humans are simply one part of the whole. There is a world that exists prior to us. Our bodily experiences of hearing, touching and smelling are encountered individually. These senses in particular are also ways of encountering the world in an unbounded, collective manner that spreads out beyond the social/cultural frame. There is an inseparability of maker, picture and what is pictured, hinting at a universal language that goes beyond the mirror, the map or the eye. The viewer of the image is as involved as the maker.