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Artwork by Katherine Wildman
Of pleasure and perversion
Etching on silk, ceramics, fibers, 2019. Photograph by Camilo Ramirez.
Artist statement

The lived-in body is messy. Sometimes lumpy, stiff, flaccid, or sore. 

My sculptures are suggestive in form, personal reflections on gendered expectations, frustration, but also desire and sexuality and the complicated moments in which they overlap. 

There is magic, pain, pleasure, and humor in these experiences. These works begin from my body but grow to have a personality and life of their own. I disassemble the body to understand its parts, its quirks, its language. I build other bodies to exist outside of myself, as alternate selves. My works are deliberately messy, a critique of society’s preoccupation with perfection in aesthetics and the body.

The content of my work is sourced from journal entries, current events, in-depth astrological mappings of the planets, recorded dreams, and poetry as translated through sculpture, printmaking, fibers, and drawings. These works contain imprints specific to my body—erotic, pleasant, pathetic, repulsive, and dream-like moments traced by hand.

An interdisciplinary visual artist, I hold a BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. My work is widely informed by fiction, astrological mappings, sexuality, intersectional feminism, dreams, and dark humor.

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