Bio
Trained as a printmaker and book artist, Katie Murken coordinates site-specific installations that position her hand-made objects, books and drawings in relationship to diverse environments and audiences. In 2011, Murken was awarded the Alumni Travel Grant from the Center for Emerging Visual artists for a residency at the Babayan Culture House in Cappadocia, Turkey. She was awarded an Independence Foundation Fellowship in 2008 to support the Public Author Project. Murken has shown her work regionally and nationally, including exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, the School of Fine Arts Gallery at Indiana University, Bloomington; The Print Center in Philadelphia; The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; and the 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Her work is included in the special collections of the Temple University Library in Philadelphia, PA and the J. Edgar Louise S. Monroe Library in New Orleans, LA.
Artist statement
My artistic process could be likened to the Foucault pendulum. As the pendulum oscillates to and fro, the rotation of the earth beneath continually alters its point of contact. Similarly, I seek out ways of working that bring me into connection with multiple and varied facets of my environment. In my recent project, Continua, I was interested in allowing the complex logic of the color spectrum to enact itself through a large-scale installation work. Hand-dyed phone books provide the raw material and modular units for a spatial mapping of the color continuum based on a self-designed system of probability.
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