Katie Walker
Pattern of a Brave Woman - Acrylic on wood - 12x12 -$700
Artist Statement
Lately, I have been continuing my expressionistic “map-making,” but as personal meaning and influences evolve, I am working to reconcile new information and knowledge with what is known. By merging residue of the past with my daily life, I am making abstract works that reflect broader experiences of life and memory. These paintings are stories within stories within stories.
Katie Walker is an abstract artist from Greenville, SC (b. 1970). In 2012, she was included in the South Carolina State Museum’s exhibition Abstract Art in South Carolina 1949-2012. She was also selected for the 701 CCA South Carolina Biennial 2011 and 2015 at 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia. Her most recent museum solo exhibition was in 2014 at the Greenville County (SC) Museum of Art. In 2015, she was part of the Columbia Museum of Art’s exhibition Independent Spirits. Walker has also exhibited in Spartanburg Museum of Art, the Pickens County Museum of Art and History as well as the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA., and the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens. She was represented at the 2005 Florence Biennale in Italy, where she was an award winner. Walker was included in New American Paintings, Vol. 40, 2002, and the publication’s 2010 anniversary edition. Walker has taught at Furman University in Greenville, where she earned her BA in studio art. She holds an MFA with “distinction” from the University of Georgia and studied and taught in the university’s Cortona Study Abroad program in Italy.