Artist in Profile: Katie Strang

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1. Who are you?

Katie Strang. I’m an artist, athlete and 4th year student in the BFA program.

2. What do you do?

Make things obsessively – drawings, paintings, prints, cookies…

3. Where can people find you?

Tromping through the snow between the ARC and my studio in Ontario Hall (or on some kind of secret mission).

4. What are you inspired by?

The physical world and the expressiveness of bodies. All the choices and limitations people have and the way they choose to navigate them. Athletes, landscapes, zombies, street art, graphic novels.

5. If you had a mission statement, what would it be?

“Show me what you mean.”

I feel like everyone can make art, and most people can learn to do most things if they want to. For me, art is about figuring out what I have to learn to explore the idea I’m interested in. I find problem-solving based disciplines like engineering fascinating in that sense.

6. How would you describe your work to someone who’s never seen it before?

Graphic. Big, and high contrast. Physical and recognizably human.

7. What are your current obsessions?

Wrestling, woodcuts, dancing, planning for next year.

8. What are you currently working on?

Layering and collaging prints, figure studies and modeling a sculpture.

Strang’s piece Splinters, and the dirt under my nails is showing in the project room of Union Gallery until Feb 11.

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