Katie Croft
Katie Croft is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Pratt with her MFA in painting and drawing 2020 and is currently a candidate at for her MSP in Creative Art Therapy from Pratt, 2022. Katie has had her work exhibited at SuperDutchess Gallery, NY; New York Academy of Art, NY; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, and Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL as an AXA Art Prize Finalist. Her work was included in the 2020 New American Paintings, No. 147, MFA Annual Issue, and the inaugural issue of AllSheMakes contemporary art and culture magazine curated by ArtGirlRising. Her work is currently being exhibited at Odyssey Gallery and ArtPlay, in Asheville, NC and University Mary Hardin Baylor, Temple, TX. In her work she uses clay as a canvas positioning her drawings, paintings, and photographs onto the surface to create sculptural figures who are simultaneously revealed and veiled. Narratives and stories, tropes, hidden images, and secrets confront the ongoing behaviour of dismissing female identity and perspective while celebrating the bountiful history and power of the feminine. As a mother she addressed her own matrilineal misinformation, and her work engages myths of the body, medicine, motherhood, and religion to critique the historical subjugation of women by imposing absurd standards of beauty and behaviour. Her daughter is often her muse and they work together creating dialogues, photographs, and collages that influence the final works and reflect how they process cultural expectations of bodies, race, and relationships between mothers and daughters.
