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

I am a contemporary visual artist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2022 I completed a Post-Bac Visual Arts Certificate through U.C. Berkeley Extension. I decided to continue to pursue my arts education journey by joining the LRMFA program at SAIC in June 2024.

My practice is concerned with the archival upon the body and the land: how the industrial revolution of the 19th and early 20th centuries led to new cultural understanding of the individual's relationship to time, land and land use. How biological and ancestral records are kept within the body and the land since the use of machines and chemical processes that alter them. Photography, transportation and distribution of products of the 1800's had a profound impact on the family, the individual and the land. I am particularly interested cultural media that have influenced white rural southern womanhood.

Through my studio work, I explore how the experiences and understandings of our ancestors have been written into our individual material selves. Metal, carbon, calcium carbonate, plant pigments, human made neon pigments and ambient sounds compose my work.