Catherine Kim
Catherine Kim graduated from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Printmaking. She grew up in Queens, New York and is currently living and working in Little Rock.
Through printmaking, the artist creates and narrates stories from reminiscent memories resounding her childhood. The arrangement of an isolated landscape juxtaposed with varying passageways captures the reverie of home by constructing the ambiguity of reality and fantasy with symbols that recall her memory of the concrete jungle. The symbols, such as subway entrances, fire escapes, telephone booths, windows, street lights, signs, stairs, and ladders all have an underlying unified meaning that speaks to the simple notion of travel and transport. These images serve as portals and guidelines in the disconnected landscape of what the artist perceives as home. The work is about a certain place and the recollections of home as it exists as memories.
Through printmaking, the artist creates and narrates stories from reminiscent memories resounding her childhood. The arrangement of an isolated landscape juxtaposed with varying passageways captures the reverie of home by constructing the ambiguity of reality and fantasy with symbols that recall her memory of the concrete jungle. The symbols, such as subway entrances, fire escapes, telephone booths, windows, street lights, signs, stairs, and ladders all have an underlying unified meaning that speaks to the simple notion of travel and transport. These images serve as portals and guidelines in the disconnected landscape of what the artist perceives as home. The work is about a certain place and the recollections of home as it exists as memories.
