Katie Walker | Reconciliation
Exhibition Dates: December 6, 2019 - January 18, 2020
Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce Reconciliation by Greenville, South Carolina artist, Katie Walker. Walker refers to her work as a process in which a series of calculations must unfold, only reaching completion once opposing aesthetic energies and forces achieve a sense of wholeness within a composition. The artist compiles her ideas, personal experiences, and reactions to material, manipulating them in order to build a language that uses imagery and spacial relationships from her own specific memory.
In Reconciliation, Walker encourages viewers to interpret meaning based on their individualistic experience and understanding. The selection of recent mixed media paintings on canvas and paper serves as a continuation of her expressionistic map-making work, Mapping Memory, where her likeness to journaling builds the revelation of a complex depiction of non-objective reality. With Reconciliation, Walker’s mix of abstract expressionism, geometry, and calligraphic line forms an intimate topography that is manufactured to yield an emotional response with multiple conclusions.
KATIE WALKER is an artist based in Greenville, S.C. Katie Walker has exhibited in the Greenville County Museum of Art, the Spartanburg (S.C.) Museum of Art, the Pickens County (S.C.) Museum of Art and History, the Columbia (S.C.) Museum of Art and the Georgia Museum of Art. Her work was included in the 2005 Florence, Italy, Biennale, where she was an award winner. Walker regularly shows in galleries across the Southeast. She has taught at Furman University in Greenville, where she earned her BA in studio art. She holds an MFA from the University of Georgia and studied and taught in the university’s Cortona Study Abroad program in Italy. Her work appeared in New American Paintings, Vol. 40, 2002.